Books by C. Stephen Jaeger

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.

Public avowals of love between men were common from antiquity through the Middle Ages. What do these expressions leave to interpretation? This title charts the social constructions of passion and sexuality in our own times, no less than in the Middle Ages.

This book examines charisma as the force in art, literature, and film that engages the reader's or viewer's consciousness and inspires admiration and imitation. Thirteen chapters analyze the workings of charisma and its effects, ranging from Homer to Woody Allen.