Publication

1986 - Clarendon Press, Oxford [Oxfordshire], England

Language

English

Word Count

84,250 words, Guess

Page Count

337 pages

Identifiers

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  • LibraryThing331671

Classifications

  • DDC189/.4
  • LCCB765.G74 S68 1986

Description

"This is a study of the intellectual development and influence of one of the most independent and vigorous Englishmen of the Middle Ages -- a medieval Dr. Johnson in his powers of mind and personality. Like Dr. Johnson he was of humble birth, lived for many years in obscurity, and emerged only late in life as a national figure, at once deeply conservative and profoundly critical of the contemporary world. As a scientist, theologian and pastoral leader, he was rooted in an English tradition going back before 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."

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Robert Grosseteste: the growth of an English mind in medieval EuropeClarendon Press1986-01-01

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