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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jaeger, C. Stephen, Author.

Series:

The Middle Ages Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education, Medieval--Philosophy--Europe.

Education, Medieval.

Church schools--History.

Church schools.

Education, Medieval--History--Social aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (532 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2013]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

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

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)

ISBN:

9786613210784

9781283210782

1283210789

9780812200300

0812200306

OCLC:

759040825