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The Envy of Angels: Cathedral Schools and Social Ideals in Medieval Europe, 950-1200

The Envy of Angels: Cathedral Schools and Social Ideals in Medieval Europe, 950-1200

Paperback

Series: Middle Ages

Medieval & Renaissance History

ISBN10: 0812217454
ISBN13: 9780812217452
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: Aug 11 2000
Pages: 544
Weight: 1.70
Height: 1.40 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
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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