Pedagogy, Intellectuals, and Dissent in the Later Middle Ages
Lollardy and Ideas of Learning

This book is about the place of pedagogy and the role of intellectuals in medieval culture.

Rita Copeland (Author)

9780521023023, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 17 November 2005

260 pages
23 x 15.5 x 1.7 cm, 0.396 kg

' … all scholars interested in Lollards should read this book.' Medium Aemm

This book is about the place of pedagogy and the role of intellectuals in medieval dissent. Focusing on the medieval English heresy known as Lollardy, Rita Copeland places heretical and orthodox attitudes to learning in a long historical perspective that reaches back to antiquity. She shows how educational ideologies of ancient lineage left their imprint on the most sharply politicized categories of late medieval culture, and how radical teachers transformed inherited ideas about classrooms and pedagogy as they brought their teaching to adult learners. The pedagogical imperatives of Lollard dissent were also embodied in the work of certain public figures, intellectuals whose dissident careers transformed the social category of the medieval intellectual. Looking closely at the prison narratives of two Lollard preachers, Copeland shows how their writings could serve as examples for their fellow dissidents and forge a new rapport between academic and non-academic communities.

Acknowledgments
General introduction: pedagogy and intellectuals
Part I. From Pedagogies to Hermeneutics: Childhood, the Literal Sense and the Heretical Classroom: Introduction
1. Revaluating the literal sense from antiquity to the Middle Ages
2. Lollardy and the politics of the literal sense
Part II. Violent Representations: Intellectuals and Prison Writing: Introduction
3. Richard Wyche and the public record
4. William Thorpe and the historical record
Bibliography
Index.

Subject Areas: British & Irish history [HBJD1], Literary studies: general [DSB]