“Visiting monks” Educational mobility in 11th and 12th century monasteries
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- Micol Long (UGent)
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- This paper studies the educational purpose of the practice of sending a monk to spend some time in a different community, as attested by 11th and 12th century Latin letters. Such exchanges were quite widespread and usually embedded in a network of contacts between two monasteries ; in fact, they could be a way of entertaining friendly relationships. This practice appears to be used in a wide range of situations (for promising individuals as well as for monks who displayed bad behavior), and the exchanges are usually represented as being beneficial to various parties : the monk himself, the hosting community and the community of origin. Education is conceived in a broad sense, including not only bookish knowledge, but also moral behavior and spiritual progress, and it is transmitted not only through formal teaching, but also informally, through the daily interactions of the members of a monastic community. In facts, it was believed that a monk could learn simply by living in a certain community and by imitating his fellow monks, whom he could likewise affect through his example.
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- Monasticism, letter-writing, education, friendship, rhetoric, travels
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-8551152
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- Long, Micol. “‘Visiting Monks’ Educational Mobility in 11th and 12th Century Monasteries.” Mobilités Monastiques de l’Antiquité Tardive Au Moyen Âge, 2018, doi:Ecole française de Rome.
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- Long, M. (2018). “Visiting monks” Educational mobility in 11th and 12th century monasteries. Mobilités Monastiques de l’Antiquité Tardive Au Moyen Âge. https://doi.org/Ecole française de Rome
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- Long, Micol. 2018. “‘Visiting Monks’ Educational Mobility in 11th and 12th Century Monasteries.” In Mobilités Monastiques de l’Antiquité Tardive Au Moyen Âge. https://doi.org/Ecole française de Rome.
- Chicago author-date (all authors)
- Long, Micol. 2018. “‘Visiting Monks’ Educational Mobility in 11th and 12th Century Monasteries.” In Mobilités Monastiques de l’Antiquité Tardive Au Moyen Âge. doi:Ecole française de Rome.
- Vancouver
- 1.Long M. “Visiting monks” Educational mobility in 11th and 12th century monasteries. In: Mobilités monastiques de l’Antiquité tardive au Moyen Âge. 2018.
- IEEE
- [1]M. Long, “‘Visiting monks’ Educational mobility in 11th and 12th century monasteries,” in Mobilités monastiques de l’Antiquité tardive au Moyen Âge, 2018.
@inproceedings{8551152, abstract = {{This paper studies the educational purpose of the practice of sending a monk to spend some time in a different community, as attested by 11th and 12th century Latin letters. Such exchanges were quite widespread and usually embedded in a network of contacts between two monasteries ; in fact, they could be a way of entertaining friendly relationships. This practice appears to be used in a wide range of situations (for promising individuals as well as for monks who displayed bad behavior), and the exchanges are usually represented as being beneficial to various parties : the monk himself, the hosting community and the community of origin. Education is conceived in a broad sense, including not only bookish knowledge, but also moral behavior and spiritual progress, and it is transmitted not only through formal teaching, but also informally, through the daily interactions of the members of a monastic community. In facts, it was believed that a monk could learn simply by living in a certain community and by imitating his fellow monks, whom he could likewise affect through his example.}}, author = {{Long, Micol}}, booktitle = {{Mobilités monastiques de l'Antiquité tardive au Moyen Âge}}, keywords = {{Monasticism,letter-writing,education,friendship,rhetoric,travels}}, language = {{eng}}, title = {{“Visiting monks” Educational mobility in 11th and 12th century monasteries}}, url = {{http://doi.org/Ecole française de Rome}}, year = {{2018}}, }
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