Robert Grosseteste
New Perspectives on his Thought and scholarship
Edited by J McEvoy
In Grosseteste we have on our hands a figure, not only of great complexity in himself, but of even greater complexity in the kind of evidence which we are required to use. It is worth remembering that, despite all efforts of the last half century, quite half of his works are still unpublished. When we turn to Grosseteste, we find a situation which is as different from this as it could well be. He presents a quite unique combination of problems. The range of subjects he studied, the way in which he studied them, and the order in which he studied them, seem to be – to a much greater extent than any of the great scholastic thinkers – to be an expression, not of any normal programme of university studies, but of his personality and of the obscure and varied background and circumstances of his life. His thoughts on the subjects which he chose to elaborate are markedly his own. In a word uniqueness of circumstances and personality.
In Grosseteste we have on our hands a figure, not only of great complexity in himself, but of even greater complexity in the kind of evidence which we are required to use. It is worth remembering that, despite all efforts of the last half century, quite half of his works are still unpublished. When we turn to Grosseteste, we find a situation which is as different from this as it could well be. He presents a quite unique combination of problems. The range of subjects he studied, the way in which he studied them, and the order in which he studied them, seem to be – to a much greater extent than any of the great scholastic thinkers – to be an expression, not of any normal programme of university studies, but of his personality and of the obscure and varied background and circumstances of his life. His thoughts on the subjects which he chose to elaborate are markedly his own. In a word uniqueness of circumstances and personality.
- Edited by J McEvoy
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A Supplement to Morton W. Bloomfield et al., ‘Incipits of Latin Works on the Virtues and Vices, 1100-1500 A.D.’
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Actes du seminaire sur le genre des questions et reponses tenu a Ottawa les 27 et 28 septembre 2009
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Felici curiositate. Studies in Latin Literature and Textual Criticism from Antiquity to the Twentieth Century
In Honour of Rita Beyers
Volume 72
From the Treasure-House of Scripture
An Analysis of Scriptural Sources in De Imitatione Christi
Volume 44
La trasmissione dei testi patristici latini: problemi e prospettive
Atti del convegno Roma, 26-28 ottobre 2009
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Philologie, hermeneutique et histoire des textes entre Orient et Occident
Melanges en hommage a Sever J. Voicu
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Lire Gregoire de Nazianze au Xe siecle
Etudes sur Basile le Minime et ses Commentaires aux Discours 4 et 5
Volume 82
Tractatio Scripturarum. Philological, Exegetical, Rhetorical, and Theological Studies on Augustine’s Sermons
Ministerium Sermonis II
Volume 65
Scrinium Augustini. The World of Augustine’s Letters
Proceedings of the International Workshop on Augustine's Correspondence, Torun, 25-26 June 2015
Volume 76
A Late Antique Harrowing of Hell and Its Medieval Reception
Eusebius of Alexandria's Sermons 15 and 17 (CPG 5524; 5526) and their Latin Rewritings
Volume 99
In Defence of Faith, Against the Manichaeans
Critical Edition and Historical, Literary and Theological Study of the Treatise Aduersus Manichaeos, Attributed to Evodius of Uzalis
Volume 79
Irenee de Lyon et les debuts de la Bible chretienne
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Litterarum dulces fructus
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