The Envy of Angels

副标题: Cathedral Schools and Social Ideals in Medieval Europe, 950-1200 (The Middle Ages Series)

ISBN: 9780812217452

出版社: University of Pennsylvania Press

出版年: 2000-08-11

页数: 532

定价: USD 28.95

装帧: Paperback

内容简介

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.