The Envy of Angels: Cathedral Schools and Social Ideals in Medieval Europe, 950-1200 (The Middle Ages Series)
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EAN/UPC/ISBN Code
9780812217452
Author
C. Stephen Jaeger
Producer
Книга по Требованию
Pages
532
Year of production
2000
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.