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

By C. Stephen Jaeger

Book information

Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Year
2013
ISBN
9780812200300, 0812200306
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
29 MB (30911202 bytes)
Pages
544\511
Time added
2020-08-23 19:45:27

Description

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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