Robert Grosseteste

Clarendon Press

1992

lxvi, 337 p.

Clarendon paperbacks

978-0198203100

Contents: Part I: Grosseteste and the European Scene -- 1. The Grosseteste problem -- I. Divergent views -- II. Contemporary witnesses: Matthew Paris; Roger Bacon; A member of Grosseteste's household: fr. Hubert -- III. Later historical reconstructions -- 2. Grosseteste and the pattern of scholastic thought -- I. The problem of spurious texts -- II. Symptoms of an independent mind -- (1) An unscholastic answer to a scholastic question -- (2) The tentative approach -- (3) The importance of insight -- (4) Consideration -- (5) Imagination -- (6) Grosseteste's scholarly vision -- 3. Two patterns of education -- I. The continental road to success -- II. The English alternative -- (1) The social environment -- (2) The intellectual environment -- 4. Outlines of a provincial career -- I. Early and middle years -- II. The Oxford years -- III. The message of a despised source -- 5. The English scientific tradition -- I. The forerunners: Adelard of Bath; Daniel of Morley; Alfred of Shareshill -- II. Scope and limits of scientific thought -- (1) The natures of earthly things -- (2) The stars -- Part II: Grosseteste's Thoughts on Nature, Man and God -- 6. Towards a chronology of Grosseteste's thought -- I. Grosseteste's early theological development -- (1) Phase I: comments on Psalms 1 to 54 -- (2) Phase 2: comments on Psalms 55 to 79 -- (3) Phase 3: comments on Psalms 80 to 100 -- II. Grosseteste's earlier scientific writings -- (1) Works to be considered for rejection: De fluxu et refluxu maris De generatione stellarum -- (2) Works to be considered for earlier dating: De Cometis; Computus I, II, and III The commentary on Aristotle's Posterior Analytics; The commentary on Aristotle's Physics -- III. Grosseteste's later scientific writings: De luce -- IV. A skeleton chronology -- 7. Grosseteste's scientific vision -- I. Grosseteste's view of the heavens: De Sphera; De Cometis -- II. The Posterior Analytics and the natural world -- (1) The entry of the Posterior Analytics into Western thought -- (2) Grosseteste and the problems of nature: The scintillation of stars; The origin of sound; The flooding of the Nile; The cause of thunder; Biological reflections; Falling leaves; The initial irrigation of the earth -- (3) Grosseteste's account of scientific knowledge -- 8. From science to theology -- I. Grosseteste's change of direction -- II. Grosseteste's theological assets -- (1) His scientific method -- (2) His scientific knowledge -- III. Grosseteste's theological deficiencies and their remedy -- (1) Origin of his Greek studies -- (2) His programme of reading -- IV. Grosseteste's theological index -- (1) Nature of the plan -- (2) When did he make it? -- (3) How could it be used? -- V. Grosseteste's theological development -- (1) Secular sources and their use -- (2) (2) The theological sources and their development: Latin sources; Greek sources: Joan of Damascus; Denys the Areopagite; Basil the Great -- 9. Grosseteste's theological vision -- I.A theology of creation -- II. Centrality of man -- III. Unity of God and nature -- IV. Necessity of God's entry into nature -- V. Chateau d'Amour: A pastoral theology -- VI. A theology of reconciliation -- Part III: Grosseteste's Thought in Action -- Note on the Diocese of Lincoln -- 10. Grosseteste in his Diocese -- I. The programme of ecclesiastical discipline -- II. Grosseteste as archdeacon -- Jews of Leicester -- III. The problems of a bishop -- (1) Consecration -- (2) Bastardy problem -- (3) His visitations -- (4) General directives and papal collaboration -- (5) The canons of Lincoln -- (6) Pastoral care and secular involvement -- 11. Grosseteste's prophetic vision -- I. Problem of the papacy -- II. Grosseteste at the papal court -- III. Pope and antichrist -- IV. Grosseteste's descent into despair -- V. Grosseteste's last words -- 12. Grosseteste's place in history -- I. Wycliffe's discovery of Grosseteste -- II. Grosseteste and the Lollards -- III. The anti-Wycliffite discovery of Grosseteste: John Tissington; Thomas Netter; Thomas Gasciogne -- IV. Grosseteste's position in medieval thought and action.

This edition of a study on the medieval philosopher and theologian Robert Grosseteste has been revised and updated in the light of recent academic research. A preliminary chapter on the debate over Grosseteste's career and intellectual growth is included. For this second edition, Sir Richard Southern has revised his much-acclaimed study in the light of recent scholarly research, and added an extensive preliminary chapter on the debate over Robert Grosseteste's career and intellectual growth. He examines particular features of Grosseteste's career in detail, especially his chancellorship of the University of Oxford, and provides a fuller account of the tradition of scientific study in England which Grosseteste inherited and transformed. This is a study of the intellectual development and influence of one of the most independent and vigorous Englishmen of the Middle ages. As a scientist, theologian and pastoral leader, he was rooted in an English tradition predating the Norman conquest, and he looks forward to such disturbing characters of the later Middle Ages as Piers Plowman and John Wycliffe, though with a wider range of intellectual interests than any of them. For this second edition, Sir Richard Southern has revised his much-acclaimed study in the light of recent scholarly research, and added an extensive preliminary chapter on the debate over Robert Grosseteste's career and intellectual growth. He examines particular features of Grosseteste's career in detail, especially his chancellorship of the University of Oxford, and provides a fuller account of the tradition of scientific study in England which Grossteste inherited and transformed. This book is intended for scholars and students of medieval British and European history; intellectual historians; specialists in medieval philosophy and theology.

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