2.10 - Time and Community in Medieval Schools with Sarah Lynch

History of Education Society UK Podcast

We're excited to share a special guest episode today from our colleagues at HEQ&A, the official podcast of History of Education Quarterly. They have an outstanding archive of episodes, but given the interdisciplinary focus of this season, today I thought we’d share an interview they did with Sarah Lynch, where she discusses her most recent article, Marking Time: Making Community in Medieval Schools. Her work embraces methods from sociology and anthropology and is a really interesting look at the temporal frameworks of education.
Dr Sarah Lynch is a historian of medieval education in France, focusing on the socio-economic context of schools, pupils, and teachers, as well as the significance of such instruction within local cultures and communities. Her research revolves around elementary and grammar education in the medieval world and her current projects centre on educational legacies in late-medieval French wills, education in the global Middle Ages, and the medieval year.
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