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The Development of Education in Medieval Iceland (Hardcover)
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The Development of Education in Medieval Iceland (Hardcover)
Series: The Northern Medieval World
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Medieval Iceland is known for the fascinating body of literary
works it produced, from ornate court poetry to mythological
treatises to sagas of warrior-poets and feud culture. This book
investigates the institutions and practices of education which lay
behind not only this literary corpus, but the whole of medieval
Icelandic culture, religion, and society. By bringing together a
broad spectrum of sources, including sagas, law codes, and
grammatical treatises, it addresses the history of education in
medieval Iceland from multiple perspectives. It shows how the
slowly developing institutions of the church shaped educational
practices within an entirely rural society with its own distinct
vernacular culture. It emphasizes the importance of Latin, despite
the lack of surviving manuscripts, and teaching and learning in a
highly decentralized environment. Within this context, it explores
how medieval grammatical education was adapted for bilingual
clerical education, which in turn helped create a separate and
fully vernacularized grammatical discourse.
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