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Robert Grosseteste
(c. 1170—1253) scientist, theologian, and bishop of Lincoln
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Adam Marsh
(died 1259)Franciscan scholar, died 18 Nov 1259. A pupil and friend of Robert Grosseteste, he was a master of arts when he took the Franciscan habit in 1232. He ...
Adam of Buckfield
(c.1220–?92)Adam of Buckfield was born around 1220 in Bockenfield, Northumberland. He studied in Oxford around 1238 and became a Master of Arts shortly before 1243. He was in close ...
Adam of Marsh
(d. c.1258), English theologian. Becoming a Franciscan in 1232/3, from c.1247 he was regent of the Franciscan house of studies in Oxford. Apart from his work as a scholar, he exercised great ...
Adelard of Bath
(c.1070–c.1145)English Benedictine remembered as a conduit for the introduction of Arabic astronomy and philosophy to the West.
Afterlife
In Islam, one's condition in the afterlife, whether in heaven or hell, is determined by the degree to which one has affirmed the unity and justice of God, acted with mercy and justice toward others, ...
Agnellus of Pisa, B1
(c. 1194–1236),founder of the English Franciscan Province. According to tradition, he was received into the Order at Pisa, his native city, by St Francis, who later sent him to ...
agricultural treatises
Medieval Europe inherited ancient Latin agricultural writings, most importantly by Cato the Elder, Varro, Columella, and Palladius. Medieval writers sometimes used ancient writings but also wrote ...
Alexander of Hales
(c.1185–1245)Influential Franciscan theologian and writer on logic, known as ‘Doctor Irrefragabilis’ (irrefutable doctor). Alexander taught the independence of theology, based on revelation, and ...
Aristotelian Commentaries
Commentaries on Aristotle's works have come down to us from both ancient and medieval times. They have also come down to us in different forms. Philosophy, taken in a general ...
Aristotle
(384–322bce). Greek philosopherimportant in the early history of Western linguistics both for his general contributions to logic, rhetoric, and poetics and for a specific classification of speech ...
atomism
A philosophical doctrine at least as old as Democritus, and plausibly viewed as an attempt to combine an a priori conviction of the unchangeable and immutable nature of the world with the variety and ...
Bartholomaeus Anglicus
(fl. 1230–50),also known as Bartholomew de Glanville, a Minorite friar, and author of De Propietatibus rerum, an encyclopaedia of the Middle Ages first printed c.1470.
beauty
The central place of beauty in Plato's thought is witnessed in the Dialogues Phaedrus and Symposium. The perception of beauty induces anamnesis, a recollection of previous acquaintance with the ...
concordance
An alphabetical list of the words (especially the important ones) present in a text or body of texts, usually with citations of the passages concerned or with the context displayed on a computer ...
Dionysius the Pseudo-Areopagite
(c.500), mystical theologian. The name given to the author of a body of theological writings to which the supporters of Severus, Patr. of Antioch, appealed in 533, attributing them to Dionysius (1) ...
English language
The Germanic language spoken in England which takes its name from the Angles (who first committed their dialect to writing) and was extended to refer to all the dialects of the vernacular, Saxon and ...
Eustratios of Nicaea
(c.1050–c.1120) Philosopher and bishop.He was John Italos’s student, propounded universals, and opposed the filioque. Accused of heresy, he was deposed, though posthumously rehabilitated. Robert ...
evil
Buddhism has no concept of evil as a cosmic force or objective reality. The nearest it comes to this is the mythological figure of Māra.the Buddhist ‘devil’. However, it has much to say about evil in ...
experiment and experimental science
One of many myths attached to the MA is that medieval scientists or natural philosophers, satisfied with the crumbs of ancient scientific knowledge available in written texts, abandoned the empirical ...
Feast of Fools
Generic name for the New Year revels in European cathedrals and collegiate churches, when the minor clergy usurped the functions of their superiors and burlesqued the services of the Church. ...
