| Breaking the Bounds: An Inaugural Lecture Given in the University of Cambridge, 16 February 2004 Contributor(s): Evans, G. R. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521607280 ISBN-13: 9780521607285 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $19.94 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2004 Annotation: In this impassioned and challenging lecture, Gillian Evans addresses the interdisciplinary nature of the study of medieval texts and its inherent problems, drawing important lessons for teaching and research within the modern university. Through discussion of the practices, philosophy and constitution of the medieval community of authorship, Evans throws into relief the assumptions which surround our current practice of dividing the subject matter of study into discrete educational ???portions??? by discipline and subject. While acknowledging that the task of pursuing the truth through academic study has perhaps been made more manageable by classification, Evans argues that ancient and medieval scholars would not have flourished in a world of single-subject disciplines. Instead, she calls for disciplinary bounds to be broken and for the modern university to lead in the preservation of learning for its own sake and the fostering of a culture of open-ended enquiry. |
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| BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - General |
| Dewey: 801.959 |
| LCCN: 2004056822 |
| Physical Information: 0.2" H x 4.6" W x 7.1" (0.05 lbs) 48 pages |
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| Publisher Description: In this impassioned and challenging lecture, Gillian Evans addresses the interdisciplinary nature of the study of medieval texts and its inherent problems, drawing important lessons for teaching and research within the modern university. Through discussion of the practices, philosophy and constitution of the medieval community of authorship, Evans throws into relief the assumptions which surround our current practice of dividing the subject matter of study into discrete educational 'portions' by discipline and subject. While acknowledging that the task of pursuing the truth through academic study has perhaps been made more manageable by classification, Evans argues that ancient and medieval scholars would not have flourished in a world of single-subject disciplines. Instead, she calls for disciplinary bounds to be broken and for the modern university to lead in the preservation of learning for its own sake and the fostering of a culture of open-ended enquiry. |
Contributor Bio(s): Evans, G. R.: - G. R. Evans is Professor of Medieval Theology and Intellectual History at the University of Cambridge. Her previous publications include The Church and the Churches (052146286X), Method in Ecumenical Theology (0521553040), Getting it Wrong: the medieval epistemology of error (Brill, Leiden, 1998), and Bernard of Clairvaux (Oxford University Press, 2000). |