A01=C. Stephen Jaeger
Author_C. Stephen Jaeger
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Education
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European History
History
Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Religion
Religious Studies
World History
Product details
- ISBN 9780812217452
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 11 Aug 2000
- Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
C. Stephen Jaeger is Professor of Germanics and Comparative Literature at the University of Washington. He is the author of Ennobling Love: In Search of a Lost Sensibility and The Origins of Courtliness: Civilizing Trends and the Formation of Courtly Ideals, 939-1210, both published by the University of Pennsylvania Press.
