A brief history of Anglo-Saxon education
Benjamin Weber
Abstract While the Anglo‐Saxon period is not always considered most dynamic milieu for medieval education, recent work in field belies that impression. Since 1980s, Anglo‐Latinists have edited, translated, and analyzed glosses, treatises, letters, prefaces enrich our understanding of education. The turn 1990s towards study literacy, subsequent interest bilingualism, situated Old English literary texts against background educational theory practice. In years, education seems only to accelerated. Two monographs, Emily Thornbury's Becoming a Poet England (2014) Irina Dumitrescu's Experience Education Literature (2018), push boundaries by exploring experience variety texts. Simultaneously, on textual cultures England—increasingly collaborative digital—continues elucidate what how Anglo‐Saxons read. dynamism offers new opportunities both Anglo‐Saxonists historians going forward.
History Compass