Education And Learning Flashcards
Women were excluded from…
Universities, grammar schools, and cathedral and collegiate church schools
Ironically, women were used to represent university subjects in art because…
The Latin words for the subjects were feminine
Men controlled access to…
Higher learning
Education was the prestige of…
A small elite. It was determined by class and gender.
Wives may have learned to read but…
Remained illiterate
Queen Margaret of Scotland could read but…
Her husband, King Malcolm III, was completely illiterate as documented by Turgot of Durham in a posthumous biography
Mothers with sufficient wealth and education encouraged…
Their daughters’ intellectual development
Reading was connected to a highborn girl’s…
Moral edification and spiritual development
Daughters were taught to read first by…
The ABC, and then prayers such as Pater Noster, Ave Maria, and The Apostles Creed
Young girls were often taught to read using…
Psalters
Isabeau of Bavaria (1371-1435) commissioned books for…
All of her daughters, including psalters
Not many girls learned to write because…
It was a specialised skill generally left for scribes
Women who wanted to write letters may have…
Used personal/hired scribes or intermediaries
Fathers and other male mentors could…
Play a role in instructing their daughters and other female relations
Charlemagne was…
Well up for teaching daughters n said it wos good
Louis IX taught his daughters
Isn’t that nice
Christine de Pizan was educated by her father…
On reading, writing, and astrology things
Many highborns sent their daughters to…
Be educated in convents, such as Poissy
Convents functioned as centres of…
Learning where books were preserved, studied, copied, and illuminated
Girls in convents were taught through…
Psalters, which included alphabets and illustrations
Girls in convents were taught both…
Spinning and embroidery, because Virgin Mary did it too
There was a lot of female scribal practise in nunneries. Examples of this include…
- Diemut, the Bavarian recluse, who copied 45 volumes single-handedly for the Benedictine monks and nuns at Wessobrun
- a lot of German nunneries produced and illuminated religious texts
The female religious authors!!
- Hrotsvitha of Gandersheim: 8 legends, 6 plays, 2 chronicles
- Herrad of Landsberg: Hortus Deliciarum Encyclopaedia
- Clemence of Barking
- German Dominican nuns: the nine Sister-Books
Women could serve as benefactors of…
Educational institutes
Eleanor of Castile commissioned…
A book of theology from Oxford, a university she was a patron of, from Archbishop John Pecham of Canterbury
Elizabeth de Burgh, Eleanor of Castile’s granddaughter, devoted…
A lot of time and money to educational institutes. University Hall, Cambridge, was a favourite of hers and she borrowed and commissioned books on surgery, romance, theology, and liturgy
By the 13th century, psalters were replaced by…
The Book of Hours as a tool for teaching children to read
