Roberti Grosseteste Episcopi Quondam Lincolniensis Epistolae

ISBN-13: 9781108042802 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 626 str.

Robert Grosseteste;Henry Richards Luard

Opis

Published as part of the Rolls Series in 1861, these collected letters date mainly from 1235 53, when, as bishop of Lincoln, their author presided over the largest diocese in England. Both a scientist and a theologian, Robert Grosseteste (c.1170 1253) boasts what the medieval historian R. W. Southern describes as 'a rarely paralleled breadth of intellectual interests'. His letters are invaluably illustrative of the social conditions of the time. He writes heatedly and earnestly on such topics as the laws concerning illegitimacy, the condition of the Jews and the liberties of the Church, with a violence of opinion that was 'balanced, indeed prompted, by a deep concern for the souls of ordinary people'. Henry Richards Luard (1825 91) puts Grosseteste's writing into context in his preface, while useful summaries of each letter in the contents list, and commentary provided in the side-notes, make the Latin text accessible to modern readers."