 | The Envy of Angels: Cathedral Schools and Social Ideals in Medieval Europe, 950-1200 Subjects: Education Medieval -- Europe -- Philosophy; Church schools -- Europe -- History; Education Medieval -- Social aspects -- Europe -- History; 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. 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. |
