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

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Authors: C. Stephen Jaeger
ISBN-13: 9780812217452, ISBN-10: 0812217454
Format: Paperback
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Date Published: August 2000
Edition: (Non-applicable)

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Author Biography: C. Stephen Jaeger

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.

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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.

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