Teaching through Architecture in the High Middle Ages - Honorius Augustodunensis and the Medieval Church

The paper explores Honorius Augustodunensis’s description of the me-dieval church and its typological qualities in the Gemma animae. Where the text overlaps with his exemplary sermons there is an indication that the church building was used as part of a horizontal learning context. Honorius’s ‘love of viewpoints’ and material culture informs the nature of an important development in twelfth-century pedagogies, one that seeks to incorporate aspects of the tangible world to anchor abstract concepts or imperceptible events. Honorius’s Gemma animae provides a fascinating insight into the development of these kinaesthetic teaching methods that were directed at fellow monks and canons, and mark the text and his sermons as important examples of horizontal learning and teaching.