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Youthful minds and hands: Learning practical knowledge in early modern Europe
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Youthful minds and hands: Learning practical knowledge in early modern EuropeFeike Dietz and Sven DupréIn Cesare Ripa’s famous and often translated anthology of personifications, Studio is described as a young man in the original Italian edition
We use a multidisciplinary approach and combine different types of sources and media (Ripa’s Iconologica, maps, handbooks, youth literature, students’ lecture notes, etc.), to argue that innovative collaborative and mediated learning practices were developed in the early modern period to allow young people to obtain the skills they needed to participate in cultures and societies that valued practical knowledge
Knowledge production is considered to be a social and collective practice. In her analysis of knowledge circulation in early modern Europe, Lissa Roberts defines knowledge as something to be cognitized and embodied by books as well as human bodies, and as a community-based practice, developed in processes of joint learning (Roberts 2012a). This scholarship on collective and mediated knowledge and learning practices has had little to say about the role of youth in these developing early modern knowledge cultures
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Youthful minds and hands: Learning practical knowledge in early modern EuropeFeike Dietz and Sven DupréIn Cesare Ripa’s famous and often translated anthology of personifications, Studio (to learn) is described as a young man (un Giouane) in the original Italian edition (see fig. 1, above). This topical issue explores a type of early modern youthful learning that was absent in Ripa’s representation of “studio”: the acquisition of practical knowledge.
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