EAN: 9781501518553

THE DEVELOPMENT OF EDUCATION IN MEDIEVAL ICELAN...

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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