The Envy of Angels: Cathedral Schools and Social Ideals in Medieval Europe, 950-1200 (The Middle Ages Series) - Softcover

Jaeger, C. Stephen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0812217454 ISBN 13: 9780812217452

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000

Synopsis

Before the rise of universities, cathedral schools educated students in a course of studies aimed at perfecting their physical presence, their manners, and their eloquence. The formula of cathedral schools was "letters and manners" (litterae et mores), which asserts a pedagogic program as broad as the modern "letters and science." The main instrument of what C. Stephen Jaeger calls "charismatic pedagogy" was the master's personality, his physical presence radiating a transforming force to his students. In The Envy of Angels, Jaeger explores this intriguing chapter in the history of ideas and higher learning and opens a new view of intellectual and social life in eleventh- and early twelfth-century Europe.

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About the Author

C. Stephen Jaeger is Professor of Germanics and Comparative Literature at the University of Washington. He is the author of Ennobling Love: In Search of a Lost Sensibility and The Origins of Courtliness: Civilizing Trends and the Formation of Courtly Ideals, 939-1210, both published by the University of Pennsylvania Press.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0812217454
• ISBN 13: 9780812217452
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 544