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...
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 ove...
