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Punishment and Medieval Education

Punishment and Medieval Education

Parsons, Ben

Hardcover

Medieval & Renaissance HistoryLiterary CriticismGeneral Education

ISBN10: 1843845156
ISBN13: 9781843845157
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Inc
Published: Oct 19 2018
Pages: 262
Weight: 1.20
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
An exploration of the contours imposed on physical punishment by education, establishing how pedagogues accommodated violence into a system of rules, rituals and objectives.

What meanys shall I use to lurne withoute betynge?, asks a pupil in a translation exercise compiled at Oxford in 1460s. One of the most conspicuous features of medieval education is its reliance on flogging. Throughout the period, the rod looms large in literary and artistic depictions of the schoolroom: it appears in teaching manuals, classroom exercises, and even in the iconography of instruction, which invariably personifies Grammatica as a woman brandishing a birch or ferule. However, as this book seeks to demonstrate, the association between teaching and beating was more than simply conventional. Medieval pedagogues and theorists did not merely accept the utility of punishment without question, but engaged with the issue in depth and detail. Almost every conceivable aspect of discipline was subject to intense scrutiny: the benefits it might transmit to learners, the relationship between mental development and physical correction, and the optimal ways in which chastisement should be performed, were all carefully examined.

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