Gallia docta? - Education and In-/Exclusion in Late Antique Gaul

Education is and was a mighty tool for both building communities and barring people from social participation. This volume explores the role education played for late Roman societies especially in Gaul, which was considered a landscape of learning. Numerous literary and material sources document a dynamic educational culture, even though imperial administrative structures were disintegrating by the fifth century and non-Romans were settling in Western provinces. But was Gaul really learned in its entirety? Which different educational communities can be traced? How did education affect processes of in- and exclusion? Thanks to a wide range of case studies, the contributions presented here throw open a window on the societal dimensions of education and frame the discursive outlines of Gallia docta .

Product details

• Assisted by: Veronika Egetenmeyr (Editor), Tabea L. Meurer (Editor)
• Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.09.2023
• EAN: 9783161624377
• ISBN: 978-3-16-162437-7
• No. of pages: 310
• Dimensions: 163 mm x 29 mm x 240 mm
• Weight: 778 g
• Series: Studies in Education and Religion in Ancient and Pre-Modern History in the Mediterranean and Its Environs; Seraphim