The Envy of Angels: Cathedral Schools and Social Ideals in Medieval Europe, 95-12

C. Stephen Jaeger

Published by University of Pennsylvania Press 1995

The Envy of Angels

Cathedral Schools and Social Ideals in Medieval Europe, 95-12

C. Stephen Jaeger

In the series The Middle Ages Series

https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812200300

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

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.

Reviews

"Jaeger has brought together an impressive collection of documents that few know and understand as well as he."—Speculum

"Few medievalists command classical and medieval writings on ethics, morality, manners, ecclesiastical and secular culture, as well as pertinent vitae and correspondence, as does Jaeger. . . . Rich, engaged, and fluently written."—Journal of English and Germanic Philology

"Jaeger has produced a fulsome study of a largely unknown era in the history of ideas and higher learning in the Middle Ages. . . . A departure from much of the literature on medieval learning."—American Historical Review

"Important and stimulating."—History

"[Jaeger] is utterly convincing on his main points, especially his analysis of eleventh-century materials, where he successfully moves beyond the analysis of literary genre and image to the description of a living educational environment that until now has been difficult to grasp fully. The importance and value of this accomplishment can scarcely be admired enough."—History of Education Quarterly

"This book is concerned with the shaping of the scholarly tradition in the West, and as such it is a brilliant exposition of the charismatic ideals and the intellectual aspirations of the masters and scholars who brought it into being, and whose influence was to linger on almost down to our own time and place."—Journal of Religious History

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xiii
Abbreviations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xv
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part One. The Old Learning
1. Two Models of Carolingian Education Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	21
2. Court and School in Ottoman Times Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	36
3. The New Education Institutionalized: Schools of Manners Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	53
4. Cultus Vinutum Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	76
5. Ethics Colonizing the Liberal Arts Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	118
6. Conclusion to Part I: Outbidding the Gods Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	180
Part Two. The Decline of the Old Learning
7. Two Crises Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	199
8. Old Learning Against New Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	217
Part Three. The Twelfth Century: Seeking New Homes
Introduction to Part 3 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	239
9. Humanism and Ethics at the School of St. Victor Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	244
10.. Bernard or Clairvaux Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	269
11. Twelfth-Century Humanism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	278
12. Court Society Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	292
Conclusion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	325
Appendix A. Moral Discipline and Gothic Sculpture: The Wise and Foolish Virgins of the Strassburpf Cathedral Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	331
Appendix B. The Letter ofGoswin of Mainz to His Student Watcher (ca. 1065) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	349
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	377
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	479
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	507

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Language: English
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 544
Illustrations
- Other: 8 illus
Keywords: History; Education; Religion; Medieval and Renaissance Studies; European History; World History; Religious Studies

eBook

Published: August 31, 2013
ISBN: 9780812200300