Grosseteste, Robert (1168–1253) Reference library
The Biographical Dictionary of British Economists
...Grosseteste went beyond the strictly biblical condemnation of usury to argue that it was contrary to nature, regardless of who engaged in it. BIBLIOGRAPHY Ethica Nicomachea Translatio Roberti Grosseteste Lincolniensis , ed. R.A. Gauthier (Leiden, 1973); The Greek Commentaries on the Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle in the Latin Translation of Robert Grosseteste , ed. H.P.F. Mercken (vol. 1, Leiden, 1973; vol. 2, Leuven, 1991). Opera Roberti Grosseteste Lincolniensis (Turnhout, 1995–). Further Reading McEvoy, J. , The Philosophy of Robert Grosseteste ...
Grosseteste, Robert (d. 1253) Reference library
The Oxford Guide to Literary Britain & Ireland (3 ed.)
..., Robert ( d. 1253 ), philosopher and scientist : b. Stradbroke ; first rector of Franciscan order in Oxford 1224 ; first Chancellor of Oxford University; Bishop of Lincoln 1235–53 ; buried in Lincoln . Le Chasteau dἈmour ...
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Michael W. Tkacz
The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium
...texts. ed. Pseudo-Andronicus de Rhodes “Peri pathon,” ed. A. Glibert-Thirry (Leiden 1977). The Greek Commentaries on the Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle in the Latin Translation of Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln, ed. H. Mercken (Leiden 1973). For other works see Thomson. S.H. Thomson , The Writings of Robert Grosseteste (Cambridge 1940). Robert Grosseteste: Scholar and Bishop 2 , ed. D.A. Callus (Oxford 1969). Michael W....
Robert Grosseteste (c.1168–1253) Reference library
Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages
... (ed.), ABMA , 10, 1987. S. H. Thomson , The writings of Robert Grosseteste , Cambridge, 1940. A. C. Crombie , Robert Grosseteste and the Origins of Experimental Science , Oxford, 1953 (3rd ed. 1971). Robert Grosseteste, Scholar and Bishop , D. A. Callus (ed.), Oxford, 1955. R. W. Southern , Robert Grosseteste , 2nd ed., Oxford, 1992. Aspectus et affectus: essays and editions in Grosseteste and medieval intellectual life , G. Freibergs (ed.), New Yori, 1993. J. McEvoy , Robert Grosseteste, Exegete and Philosopher , Aldershot, 1994. Gilbert...
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The Oxford Companion to English Literature (7 ed.)
...his interest in experimental science, especially optics and mathematics. Influenced by the Platonic tradition in Arab philosophy, he developed his light‐metaphysic in his work De Luce . See R. W. Southern , Robert Grosseteste: The Growth of an English Mind in Medieval Europe , 2nd edn (1992) ; James McEvoy , The Philosophy of Robert Grosseteste ...
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Alexander Broadie
The Oxford Companion to Philosophy (2 ed.)
...terms of natural, and ultimately divine, illumination. Grosseteste also composed numerous scientific treatises, being one of a small but growing band who recognized the importance of experiment in the establishment of scientific truth. He was a pioneer in the Christian West as a translator of Aristotle from Greek into Latin. Prof. Alexander Broadie J. McEvoy , Robert Grosseteste (Oxford,...
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Giles Gasper
The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (4 ed.)
..., OFM Cap., ‘Robert Grosseteste at the Papal Curia, Lyons 1250. Edition of the documents’, Collectanea Franciscana 41 (1971), 340–93. Studies by: P. M. Hoskin , Robert Grosseteste and the 13-Century Diocese of Lincoln (Leiden, 2019). S. Harrison Thomson , The Writings of Robert Grosseteste (Cambridge, 1940). A. C. Crombie , Robert Grosseteste and the Origins of Experimental Science (Oxford, 1953). D. A. Callus , OP (ed.), Robert Grossesteste, Scholar and Bishop (Oxford, 1955). J. [J.] McEvoy , The Philosophy of Robert Grosseteste (Oxford,...
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The Oxford Companion to Chaucer
...; conjunccio(u)n ; Kalendere ; medicine ; Plato ; Somer ; weather .) [ John North ] Crombie, A. C. (1953), Robert Grosseteste and the Origins of Experimental Science, 1100–1700 (Oxford); McEvoy, J. (1982), The Philosophy of Robert Grosseteste (Oxford); Smalley, Beryl (1955), ‘The Bible Scholar’, in D. A. Callus (ed.), Robert Grosseteste: Scholar and Bishop (Oxford), 70–97, 96; Southern, R. W. (1986), Robert Grosseteste: The Growth of an English Mind in Medieval Europe ...
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A Dictionary of Philosophy (3 ed.)
..., Robert ( c .1168–1253 ) English medieval philosopher . Born in Suffolk, Grosseteste gained a reputation in medicine, and after study in Paris became perhaps the first Chancellor of the university of Oxford. He taught the Franciscans in Oxford, and became Bishop of Lincoln in 1235 . He represented an Augustinian tradition, filtered through Avicenna and Anselm , in contrast to the prevailing Aristotelian influence in the schools of Paris. Grosseteste had scientific interests; he was particularly concerned with the nature of light, which he...
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The Continuum Encyclopedia of British Philosophy
...appreciated within the Christian view of reality. Bibliography For a complete bibliography of editions and translations of the works of Robert Grosseteste, see Robert Grosseteste and the Beginnings of a British Theological Tradition , ed. Maura O'Carroll (Rome 2003), pp.339–41. Die Philosophische Werke des Robert Grosseteste, Bischofs von Lincoln , ed. Ludwig Baur (Münster, 1912). Le Château d'amour de Robert Grosseteste, évêque de Lincoln , ed. Jessie Murray (Paris, 1918). Commentarius in ‘De mystica theologia’ , ed. U. Gamba (Milan, 1942)....
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J. A. Cannon
The Oxford Companion to British History (2 ed.)
..., Robert ( c. 1170–1253 ) . Scholar and bishop. Of a humble Suffolk family, Grosseteste went to Cambridge and later lectured at Oxford. He held archdeaconries for Wiltshire, Northampton, and Leicester before election in 1235 to the vast diocese of Lincoln . He plunged into reforming the discipline of the see and into the quarrels that preoccupied him for the rest of his life. From 1239 he was in collision with the chapter at Lincoln in a flurry of excommunications, until Innocent IV found in his favour in 1245 . While this quarrel continued,...
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James McEvoy
The Oxford Guide to the Historical Reception of Augustine
... 63 (1999) 289–315. ——, Robert Grosseteste (Oxford 2000). ——, ‘Robert Grosseteste. The Man and his Legacy’, in E. A. Mackie and J. Goering (eds), Editing Robert Grosseteste (Toronto 2003) 3–29. ——, ‘ Dignitas humana . The Equal Dignity of Man and Woman through their Creation in the Image of God. Basil the Great's Outlook and Robert Grosseteste's Reception of it’, in Lebech (ed.), Maynooth...
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The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature (4 ed.)
..., Robert ( c. 1170–1253 ) Bishop of Lincoln and the first chancellor of Oxford University. He was the author of translations from the Greek, including Aristotle 's Ethics and the works of Pseudo‐Dionysius ( see Dionysius the Pseudo‐Areopagite ). He was a prolific, influential figure in the development of the Augustinian philosophical tradition, and was largely responsible for the Oxford emphasis on the development of the natural sciences. Some of his writings tackle theological topics with originality; others develop his interest in experimental...
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (3 ed.)
..., Robert ( c. 1170–1253 ), Bp. of Lincoln . Little is known of his early life. By 1225 he was lecturing on theology at Oxford; about 1230 he gave up his position as university lecturer to become the first lector to the recently established community of Franciscans outside the city walls of Oxford. In 1235 he became Bp. of Lincoln. Until 1225 he was mainly occupied with scientific studies. His most important work in this field was a commentary on Aristotle ’s Posterior Analytics . Between c. 1225 and 1235 he produced most of his...
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Oxford Dictionary of Scientific Quotations
...Robert Grosseteste c. 1168 – 1253 British natural philosopher Now, all causes of natural effects must be expressed by means of lines, angles and figures, for otherwise it is impossible to grasp their explanation. This is evident as follows. A natural agent multiplies its power from itself to the recipient, whether it acts on sense or on matter. This power is sometimes called species, sometimes a likeness, and it is the same thing whatever it may be called; and the agent sends the same power into sense and into matter, or into its own contrary, as heat...
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A Dictionary of British History (3 ed.)
..., Robert ( c. 1170–1253 ). Scholar and bishop . Of a humble Suffolk family, Grosseteste went to Cambridge and later lectured at Oxford. He held archdeaconries for Wiltshire, Northampton, and Leicester before election in 1235 to the vast diocese of Lincoln. He plunged into reforming the discipline of the see and into the quarrels that preoccupied him for the rest of his life. A man of great learning, Grosseteste wrote innumerable translations and commentaries. The combination of pugnacity and piety, more common in the 13th cent. than today,...
Grosseteste (Lincolniensis), Robert (c.1168–1253) Reference library
The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages
...reverberated all the way to the *papacy . Steven P. Marrone D. A. Callus , ed., Robert Grosseteste, Scholar and Bishop (1955). J. McEvoy , The Philosophy of Robert Grosseteste (1982). —— Robert Grosseteste (2000). S. P. Marrone , William of Auvergne and Robert Grosseteste: New Ideas of Truth in the Early Thirteenth Century (1983). —— The Light of Thy Countenance: Science and Knowledge of God in the Thirteenth Century , 2 vols (2001). R. W. Southern , Robert Grosseteste: The Growth of an English Mind in Medieval Europe ( 2...
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Andrea Immel
The Oxford Companion to the Book
...had been in circulation before the invention of printing. By modern standards, few concessions were made to children as readers. Production was dominated by didactic works, including Latin *grammars (by Donatus and others), courtesy literature or *conduct books (e.g. Robert Grosseteste ’s Puer ad Mensam ), moral instruction (e.g. Disticha Catonis ), or *anthologies (e.g. Geoffroy de la Tour Landry’s Book of the Knight of the Tower , which *Caxton printed in 1484 ). In time, illustrated abridgements and adaptations of adult texts intended to teach...
