The Envy of Angels: Cathedral Schools and Social Ideals in Medieval Europe, 950-1200

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.

Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Abbreviations --; Introduction --; 1. Two Models of Carolingian Education --; 2. Court and School in Ottoman Times --; 3. The New Education Institutionalized: Schools of Manners --; 4. Cultus Vinutum --; 5. Ethics Colonizing the Liberal Arts --; 6. Conclusion to Part I: Outbidding the Gods --; 7. Two Crises --; 8. Old Learning Against New --; Introduction to Part 3 --; 9. Humanism and Ethics at the School of St. Victor --; 10.. Bernard or Clairvaux --; 11. Twelfth-Century Humanism --; 12. Court Society --; Conclusion --; Appendix A. Moral Discipline and Gothic Sculpture: The Wise and Foolish Virgins of the Strassburpf Cathedral --; Appendix B. The Letter ofGoswin of Mainz to His Student Watcher (ca. 1065) --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index