The Envy of Angels Cathedral Schools and Social Ideals in Medieval Europe, 950-1200
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- Binding: Paperback
- Publisher: Univ of Pennsylvania Pr
- Publish date: 08/01/2000
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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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