The Envy of Angels : : Cathedral Schools and Social Ideals in Medieval Europe, 950-1200 / / C. Stephen Jaeger.

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• VerfasserIn: Jaeger, C. Stephen,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2013]; ©1995
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: The Middle Ages Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (544 p.) :; 8 illus
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Abbreviations --; Introduction --; 1. Two Models of Carolingian Education --; 2. Court and School in Ottoman Times --; 3. The New Education Institutionalized: Schools of Manners --; 4. Cultus Vinutum --; 5. Ethics Colonizing the Liberal Arts --; 6. Conclusion to Part I: Outbidding the Gods --; 7. Two Crises --; 8. Old Learning Against New --; Introduction to Part 3 --; 9. Humanism and Ethics at the School of St. Victor --; 10.. Bernard or Clairvaux --; 11. Twelfth-Century Humanism --; 12. Court Society --; Conclusion --; Appendix A. Moral Discipline and Gothic Sculpture: The Wise and Foolish Virgins of the Strassburpf Cathedral --; Appendix B. The Letter ofGoswin of Mainz to His Student Watcher (ca. 1065) --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780812200300; 9783110413458; 9783110413472; 9783110442526
• DOI: 10.9783/9780812200300
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: C. Stephen Jaeger.

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.