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

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.

Table of Contents

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