C. Stephen Jaeger 
The Envy of Angels 
Cathedral Schools and Social Ideals in Medieval Europe, 95-12

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.

Über den Autor

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.