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The experience of education in Anglo-Saxon literature /

"Anglo-Saxons valued education yet understood how precarious it could be, alternately bolstered and undermined by fear, desire, and memory. They praised their teachers in official writing, but composed and translated scenes of instruction that revealed the emotional and cognitive complexity of...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Dumitrescu, Irina (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Colección:Cambridge studies in medieval literature ; 102.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; Half-title; Series information; Title page; Copyright information; Dedication; Table of contents; Acknowledgments; List of abbreviations; Introduction; Chapter 1 Letters; Bede on Language; Muteness and Liberation in the Ecclesiastical History; Language and Liberation; Chapter 2 Prayer; Solomon and Saturn I; The Pater Noster and Knowledge; Saturn's Desire; Learning to Read; Chapter 3 Violence; Reading Bata in Context; Grammar, Suffering, and Ælfric's Colloquy; Bata's Colloquies and the Pedagogy of Pain; Classroom Performance; The Violent Logic of Discipline.
  • Chapter 4 Recollection; Introduction; Teaching in Andreas; Learning by Remembering; Cynewulf's Elene; Anamnesis and Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy; A Rhetoric of Riddling; Chapter 5 Desire; Ideas of Teaching in the Life of St Mary of Egypt; Mary of Egypt's Pedagogy; The Danger of Teaching; Conclusion; Note; Introduction; 1. Letters; 2. Prayer; 3. Violence; 4. Recollection; 5. Desire; Conclusion; Bibliography; Reference Works; Primary Sources; Secondary Sources; Index.