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Roger Bacon and the Defence of Christendom (Hardcover, New)
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Roger Bacon and the Defence of Christendom (Hardcover, New)
Series: Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series
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The English Franciscan Roger Bacon (c.1214-92) holds a
controversial but important position in the development of modern
science. He has been portrayed as an isolated figure, at odds with
his influential order and ultimately condemned by it. This major
study, the first in English for nearly sixty years, offers a
provocative new interpretation of both Bacon and his environment.
Amanda Power argues that his famous writings for the papal curia
were the product of his critical engagement with the objectives of
the Franciscan order and the reform agenda of the
thirteenth-century church. Fearing that the apocalypse was at hand
and Christians unprepared, Bacon explored radical methods for
defending, renewing and promulgating the faith within Christendom
and beyond. Read in this light, his work indicates the breadth of
imagination possible in a time of expanding geographical and
intellectual horizons.
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