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

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Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2013]
©1995
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Series:The Middle Ages Series
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Physical Description:1 online resource (544 p.) :; 8 illus
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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