Robert Grosseteste (Great Medieval Thinkers)

✍ Scribed by James McEvoy

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 240
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Robert Grosseteste (c 1168-1253) was the initiator of the English scientific tradition, one of the first chancellors of Oxford University, and a famous teacher and commentator on the newly discovered works of Aristotle. In this book, James McEvoy provides the first general, inclusive overview
of the entire range of Grosseteste's massive intellectual achievement.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
1 From Schools to University
2 A Life Poorly Known: The First Six Decades
3 The Council of Lyons and Its Aftermath, through Grosseteste's Eyes
4 Relationship with the Mendicants
5 The Myth of the Proto-Reformer
6 Contribution to Philosophy
7 Exegetical Writings
8 Greek Scholarship
9 Personal Theological Stamp
10 Pastoral Writings
11 Anglo-Norman Works
12 The Earliest Franciscan Masters at Oxford
13 The Arrival of the Sentences
Conclusion
Appendix 1: A Sample of Grosseteste's Preaching—A Sermon of Robert Grosseteste on Galations 5:24
Appendix 2: On Christian Liberty—Extracts from Grosseteste's Commentary on Galatians, Chapters 4–6
Appendix 3: On Educative Love
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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