Monastic Education in Late Antiquity (eBook, ePUB)

The Transformation of Classical Paideia
Redaktion: Larsen, Lillian I.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In re-examining the Christianization of the Roman Empire and subsequent transformation of Graeco-Roman classical culture, this volume challenges conventional ways of understanding both the history of Christian monasticism and the history of education. The chapters interrogate assumptions that have framed monastic practice as pedagogically unprecedented, with few obvious precursors and/or parallels. A number explore how both teaching and practice merge classical pedagogical structures with Christian sources and traditions. Others re-situate monasticism within a longer trajectory of educational and institutional frameworks, elucidating models that remain central to the preservation of both Greek and Latin literary culture, and the skills of reading and writing. Through re-examination of archaeological evidence and critical re-reading of signature monastic texts, each documents the degree to which monastic structures emerged in close alignment with urban, literate society, and retain established affinity with classical rhetorical and philosophical school traditions.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. August 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108168847
• Artikelnr.: 54036735

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. The Language of Education: 1. Early monasticism and the concept of
a 'School' Samuel Rubenson; 2. Translating paideia: education in the Greek
and Latin versions of the Life of Anthony Peter Gemeinhardt; 3. Paideia,
piety and power: Emperors and Monks in Socrates' Church History Andreas
Westergren; Part II. Elementary Education and Literacy: 4. The Educational
and Cultural Background of Egyptian Monks Roger Bagnall; 5. 'Excavating the
Excavations' of early monastic education Lillian I. Larsen; 6. Homer and
Menandri Sententiae in Upper Egyptian monastic settings Anastasia Maravela;
Part III. Grammar and Rhetoric: 7. The school of Didymus the blind in the
light of the Tura find Blossom Stefaniw; 8. Affecting rhetoric: the
adoption of Ethopoeia in Evagrius of Pontus' ascetic program Ellen
Muehlberger; 9. Classical education in sixth century Coptic monasticism:
the example of Rufus of Shotep Mark Sheridan; Part IV. Philosophy: 10. The
virtue of being uneducated: attitudes towards classical paideia in early
monasticism and ancient philosophy Henrik Rydell Johnsén; 11. Plato between
school and cell: biography and competition in the fifth-century
philosophical field Arthur Urbano; 12. Pythagorean traditions in Early
Christian asceticism Daniele Pevarello; Part V. Manuscript and Literary
Production: 13. Textual fluidity and authorial revision: the case of
Cassian and Palladius Britt Dahlman; 14. Production, distribution, and
ownership of books in the monasteries of Upper Egypt: the evidence of the
Nag Hammadi Colophons Hugo Lundhaug and Lance Jenott; 15. Greek thought,
Arabic culture: approaching the Arabic recensions of the Apophthegmata
Patrum Jason Zaborowski.