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Using Commonplace Books to Enrich Medieval and Renaissance Courses

This book is a collection of essays offering a wide range of approaches to teaching with commonplace books. In the medieval period and beyond, commonplace books promoted a blend of excerpting, memorization, creative writing, and journaling, making them the analogue equivalent to modern-day digital j...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: PARKER, SARAH
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: LEEDS : ARC HUMANITIES PRESS, 2023.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:This book is a collection of essays offering a wide range of approaches to teaching with commonplace books. In the medieval period and beyond, commonplace books promoted a blend of excerpting, memorization, creative writing, and journaling, making them the analogue equivalent to modern-day digital journaling, bookmarking, and note-taking tools. 0Covering a variety of methods for introducing students to the medieval and Renaissance reading practice known as commonplacing, this volume provides instructors with concrete guidelines for using commonplace books as a teaching and learning tool. The enclosed essays provide a point of reference for best practices as well as concrete models for teaching and learning with commonplace books, helping instructors develop more student-centred, inclusive curricula.0.
Physical Description:1 online resource (196 pages): illustrations (black and white).
ISBN:9781802701258
Access:Open Access