Debating with Demons: Pedagogy and Materiality in Early English Literature by Pr

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A consideration of the theme of demons as teachers in early English literature.

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A consideration of the theme of demons as teachers in early English literature.In early English literature ca 700-1000 C.E., demons are represented as teachers who use methods of persuasion and argumentation to influence their "pupils". By deploying these methods, related to the liberal arts of rhetoric anddialectic, demons become masters of verbal manipulation. Their pupils are frequently women or Jews, seemingly marginal figures but who often oppose the authority of demonic pedagogues and challenge their deceptive lessons. In poetic accounts of the Fall of the Angels, the Fall of Adam and Eve, and the lives of the saints, those who debate with demons redefine the significance of narrative, authority, and resistance in early medieval pedagogy.This book argues that these encounters between demonic teachers and their pupils are both epistemological, altering the pupils' knowledge, and ontological, affecting their state of being. As the pupils "learn", the physical locations theyoccupy align with rhetorical and dialectical topoi, or conceptual spaces in the mind, as minds, souls, bodies, and places are integrated into cohesive lived experience. The volume thus explores early medieval pedagogy as a spirituo-material practice, both embodied and emplaced, with the potential to alter the onto-epistemological dynamics of the world.

Author Biography

CHRISTINA M. HECKMAN is Professor of English at Augusta University, Georgia.

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Devil's Secret ChamberSpirituo-Materiality in the Early Middle AgesThe Artes Liberales in the Early Middle AgesThe Devil Within: Perils of Pedagogy in the Monastic SchoolThe Origin of the Teaching Demon: Lucifer as MagisterDemonic Teaching and the Fall in the Old English GenesisDemonic Teaching and Saintly Discretio in Cynewulf's JulianaInventing Materia: The True Cross and Saintly Disputation in Cynewulf's EleneConclusion: The Mysteries of PedagogyBibliographyAcknowledgements

Review

This book offers useful studies of the role of the demon-as-teacher in Old English literature. It demonstrates that education in the early Middle Ages was threatened by, but in need of, corruptive demons and their malign pedagogical and verbal art. It is a useful and forward thinking contribution to the subject of learning [..] in the period. * SPECULUM *

Details ISBN1843845652 Publisher Boydell & Brewer Ltd Year 2020 ISBN-10 1843845652 ISBN-13 9781843845652 Format Hardcover Short Title Debating with Demons Series Anglo-Saxon Studies Language English Subtitle Pedagogy and Materiality in Early English Literature Series Number 41 DEWEY 829.09 Pages 260 Place of Publication Cambridge Country of Publication United Kingdom Illustrations No AU Release Date 2020-08-21 NZ Release Date 2020-08-21 Publication Date 2020-08-21 UK Release Date 2020-08-21 Author Christina M. Heckman Imprint D.S. Brewer Alternative 9781787448421 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this

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