TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dumitrescu,Irina
TI  - Experience of education in Anglo-Saxon literature
T2  - Cambridge studies in medieval literature
SN  - 9781108416863 (hardback)
U1  - 829.09 DUM 
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Cambridge, New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - English literature
KW  - Old English, ca. 450-1100
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Education in literature
KW  - Teachers in literature
KW  - Civilization, Anglo-Saxon, in literature
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - History
KW  - Anglo-Saxon period, 449-1066
N1  - GBP 75.00

S02/111; Includes bibliographical references; Machine generated contents note: Introduction; 1. Letters: Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People; 2. Prayer: Solomon and Saturn I; 3. Violence: 'lfric Bata's colloquies; 4. Recollection: Andreas; 5. Desire: the life of St Mary of Egypt; Conclusion: the ends of teaching
N2  - "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 learning. Irina Dumitrescu explores how early medieval writers used fictional representations of education to explore the relationship between teacher and student. These texts hint at the challenges of teaching and learning: curiosity, pride, forgetfulness, inattention, and despair. Still, these difficulties are understood to be part of the dynamic process of pedagogy, not simply a sign of its failure. The book demonstrates the enduring concern of Anglo-Saxon authors with learning throughout Old English and Latin poems, hagiographies, histories, and schoolbooks"--
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