Documentary Culture And The Laity In The Early Middle Ages

This revealing study explores how people at all social levels, whether laity or clergy, needed, used and kept documents.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the education of the laity in the early middle ages. It covers topics like the role of the church in education, the nature of early medieval education, and the individuals who were involved in the education of the laity. It's an essential read for anyone interested in the history of education and the early middle ages. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Explores the lives of the early medieval laity beyond the interactions with churches and monasteries that dominate most of our sources.

Our understanding of life in the early Middle Ages is dominated by Christian churches and monasteries. It is their records and libraries which have survived the centuries, to tell us how the clerics, monks, and nuns who lived and worked within their walls experienced the world around them. We thus see the lay inhabitants of that wider world mostly when they are interacting with the clergy. However, a few sources let us explore lay life in this period more broadly. Beyond the Monastery Walls exploits perhaps the richest of these: manuscript books containing formulas, or models, for documents that do not otherwise survive. Through these books, Warren C. Brown explores the concerns and behavior of lay men and women in this period on their own terms, and casts fresh light on a part of the medieval world that is usually hidden from view. In the process, he shows how early medievalists are winning fresh information from our sources by looking at them in new ways.

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Excerpt from Education of the Laity in the Early Middle Ages The types of schools flourishing in each succeeding cen tury are reviewed in order to obtain an idea of their ex tent and the provision made in them for the education of the laity. What facilities were offered in the episcopal, parish, and palace schools, and in the monasteries before the formal establishment of the schools for externs, what was the effect of this establishment, and its significance as indicating the presence of large numbers of pupils in the monastic schools and the necessity of caring for them, are questions which demand even greater attention than those referring to the lay teachers and professions them selves. Care has been taken to treat only of those points in connection with individual schools which were of rather general application, or typical of certain countries or periods. This was called for by the order followed in the chapters which required that the European world of the time be kept in View, however much the accomplish ments of a great personal factor like Charlemagne or Alfred the Great might be emphasized. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

This innovative collection re-evaluates the function and significance of the written word in early medieval Europe.