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Item Details
Title:
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THE ENVY OF ANGELS
CATHEDRAL SCHOOLS AND SOCIAL IDEALS IN MEDIEVAL EUROPE, 950-1200 |
By: |
C. Stephen Jaeger |
Format: |
Electronic book text |
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£38.00 |
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ISBN 10: |
0812200306 |
ISBN 13: |
9780812200300 |
Publisher: |
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS |
Pub. date: |
1 January, 1995 |
Series: |
The Middle Ages Series |
Pages: |
544 |
Description: |
An engaging narrative history of the origins of formal education in the West. Winner of the Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural History, awarded by the American Philosophical Society. |
Synopsis: |
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. |
Illustrations: |
8 illus |
Publication: |
US |
Imprint: |
University of Pennsylvania Press |
Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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