Gallia docta?

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.Peter Gemeinhardt: Foreword - Veronika Egetenmeyr/Tabea L. Meurer: Introduction. Approaches to Education & In-/Exclusion

Part 1: Constructing Educational Communities
Veronika Egetenmeyr: Eucherius of Lyon and the Educational Communities of Lérins − Raphael Schwitter: Writing Poetry in the Schools of Gaul - Rhetorical Practice and Literary Pursuit − Joop van Waarden: A Gentleman Weighs his 'You' and 'I'. Inclusion in the Letters of Faustus, Mamertus Claudianus, Ruricius, Avitus and Ennodius

Part 2: Plurality of and Multiple Membership in Educational Communities
Jan-Markus Kötter:Novi Martini . Die Bildungsgemeinschaft der Gallischen Chronik von 452 - Christian Stadermann: Barbarians within the Gates: Integration and Disintegration in Late Roman Gaul − Gernot M. Müller: Zwischen Abgrenzung und Integration. Sidonius Apollinaris' Carmina minora im Horizont der Bildungsgeschichte des 5. und 6. Jahrhunderts

Part 3: In- and Exclusion through Education
Judith Hindermann: Lists as a Means of Education. The Inclusion of Literary Authorities in Sidonius Apollinaris' Letters and Poems − Hendrik Hess: The Role of Women in Gallic Letter Collections in the Second Half of the 5th Century − Maik Patzelt: The Fusion of Secular and Spiritual Education in Gallic Cloisters. A Rereading of Caesarius' Regula ad virgines − Willum Westenholz: When You Have Nothing Nice to Say... Some Unkind Letters of Recommendation from the Pen of Sidonius Apollinaris

Part 4:Gallia docta - A Landscape of Learning? Realities and Ideologies
Alison John: Greek in the Literary Circles of Sidonius' Gaul − Nikolas Hächler: (Re-)Presenting παιδεία through Objects. Exclusion and Inclusion through the studia litterarum on the Example of the Treasure of Kaiseraugst − Tabea L. Meurer: Ausonius' Professores . A Landscape of Learning in Fourth-Century Gaul?