The Envy of Angels: Cathedral Schools and Social Ideals in Medieval Europe, 95-12 (The Middle Ages Series) - Softcover

Jaeger, C. Stephen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0812217454 ISBN 13: 9780812217452

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000

Synopsis

The Envy of Angels 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. Full description

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Review:

"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

"[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

"Important and stimulating."—History

"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

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

From the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0812217454
• ISBN 13: 9780812217452
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 544