The envy of angels : cathedral schools and social ideals in medieval Europe, 950-1200 /

"In The Envy of Angels, C. Stephen Jaeger studies the German and French cathedral schools, the major centers of secular learning in Europe until the rise of the universities in the twelfth century. Jaeger argues that cathedral schools revived the learning of classical antiquity, shaped the code...

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Main Author: Jaeger, C. Stephen
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©1994.
Series:Middle Ages series
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Two models of Carolingian education
  • Court and school in Ottonian times
  • The new education institutionalized: schools of manners
  • Cultus virtutum
  • Ethics colonizing the liberal arts
  • Outbidding the gods
  • Two crises
  • Old learning against new
  • Humanism and ethics at the school of St. Victor
  • Bernard of Clairvaux
  • Twelfth-century humanism
  • Court society.