Medievalists.net » Education http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Sun, 06 Dec 2015 19:35:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 ‘Like the Wick of the Lamp, Like the Silkworm They Are’: Stupid Schoolteachers in Classical Arabic Literary Sources http://www.medievalists.net/2015/09/28/like-the-wick-of-the-lamp-like-the-silkworm-they-are-stupid-schoolteachers-in-classical-arabic-literary-sources/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/09/28/like-the-wick-of-the-lamp-like-the-silkworm-they-are-stupid-schoolteachers-in-classical-arabic-literary-sources/#comments Mon, 28 Sep 2015 14:05:45 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=61403 That schoolteachers were incorrigibly fatuous was certainly a common perception, widespread in adab literature of the ʿAbbāsid period and in later sources too. Indeed, the question of their stupidity, or rather, the stereotype of ‘the stupid schoolteacher’ was a topos which several classical and post-classical writers were fond of using, along with others such as ‘the dull person’, ‘the smart sponger’ and ‘the ridiculous bedouin’.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2015/09/07/the-long-history-of-teachers-complaining-about-students/feed/ 0 The Life of Medieval Students as Illustrated by their Letters http://www.medievalists.net/2015/09/06/the-life-of-medieval-students-as-illustrated-by-their-letters/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/09/06/the-life-of-medieval-students-as-illustrated-by-their-letters/#comments Mon, 07 Sep 2015 02:30:32 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=60890 The intellectual life of the Middle Ages was not characterized by spontaneous or widely diffused power of literary expression.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2015/09/06/the-life-of-medieval-students-as-illustrated-by-their-letters/feed/ 0 Dear Dad, Send Money – Letters from Students in the Middle Ages http://www.medievalists.net/2015/09/05/dear-dad-send-money-letters-from-students-in-the-middle-ages/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/09/05/dear-dad-send-money-letters-from-students-in-the-middle-ages/#comments Sun, 06 Sep 2015 04:43:07 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=60877 I ask of you greetings and money.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2015/09/05/dear-dad-send-money-letters-from-students-in-the-middle-ages/feed/ 0 Medieval Back-to-School Shopping List http://www.medievalists.net/2015/09/03/medieval-back-to-school-shopping-list/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/09/03/medieval-back-to-school-shopping-list/#comments Thu, 03 Sep 2015 18:17:50 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=60835 In the Middle Ages, students entering university had to gather together materials, too, before they headed off to places sometimes very far from home like Oxford University, the University of Salerno, or the University of Paris. Here’s a list of five things that would be on a medieval back-to-school shopping list.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2015/08/23/questions-and-answers-with-alcuin/feed/ 0 Imprisonment, Execution and Escape: Medieval History and the National Curriculum http://www.medievalists.net/2015/07/14/imprisonment-execution-and-escape-medieval-history-and-the-national-curriculum/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/07/14/imprisonment-execution-and-escape-medieval-history-and-the-national-curriculum/#comments Tue, 14 Jul 2015 13:37:14 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=59648 The final talk in Sesson #1041, Engaging the Public with the Medieval World, looked at what English children are being taught in school. How much medieval history is in the new programme that was released in September 2014? Megan Gooch, Curator at the Historic Royal Palaces breaks down the English system for us in her paper, ‘Imprisonment, Execution, and Escape: Medieval History and the National Curriculum’.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2015/07/14/imprisonment-execution-and-escape-medieval-history-and-the-national-curriculum/feed/ 0 Making the Castle a Home: Creating an Immersive Medieval World Using Live Costumed Interpreters http://www.medievalists.net/2015/07/13/making-the-castle-a-home-creating-an-immersive-medieval-world-using-live-costumed-interpreters/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/07/13/making-the-castle-a-home-creating-an-immersive-medieval-world-using-live-costumed-interpreters/#comments Mon, 13 Jul 2015 10:43:47 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=59622 How does the use of unscripted, adaptive, historical interpretation boost the tourist experience? Right on the heels of our look at the Tower of London’s visitor engagement, we heard a paper from Lauren Johnson, Research Manager for Past Pleasures, the oldest historical interpretation company in the UK who educate and entertain the public at historical sites, museums, on stage and and on TV.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2015/07/13/making-the-castle-a-home-creating-an-immersive-medieval-world-using-live-costumed-interpreters/feed/ 0 Papers on Medieval Prosopography: Session #47 at KZOO 2015 http://www.medievalists.net/2015/05/29/session-47-medieval-prosopography-ii/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/05/29/session-47-medieval-prosopography-ii/#comments Sat, 30 May 2015 00:49:56 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=58508 Three fantastic papers on Prosopography from #KZOO2015.

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