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The Letters of Adam Marsh - Volume I (Hardcover, New)
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The Letters of Adam Marsh - Volume I (Hardcover, New)
Series: Oxford Medieval Texts
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The first Franciscan friar to occupy a chair of theology at Oxford,
Adam Marsh became famous both in England and on the continent as
one of the foremost Biblical scholars of his time. He moved with
equal assurance in the world of politics and the scholastic world
of the university. Few men without official position can have had
their advice so eagerly sought by so many in high places. He was
counsellor to King Henry III and the queen, the spiritual director
of Simon de Montfort and his wife, the devoted friend and
counsellor of Robert Grosseteste, and consultant to the rulers of
the Franciscan order. Scholars have long recognized the importance
of his influence as mentor and spiritual activator of a circle of
idealistic clergy and laymen, whose pressure for reform in secular
government as well as in the Church culminated in the political
upheavals of the years 1258-65. The collection of his letters,
compiled by an unknown copyist within thirty years of his death, is
perhaps the most illuminating and historically important series of
private letters to be produced in England before the fifteenth
century. The inclusion among his correspondents of such notable
figures as Grosseteste, Simon de Montfort, Queen Eleanor, and
Archbishop Boniface, make the collection a source of primary
importance for the political history of England, the English
Church, and the organization of Oxford University in the turbulent
middle years of the thirteenth century. This critical edition,
which supersedes the only previous edition published by J. S.
Brewer in the Rolls Series nearly 150 years ago, is accompanied for
the first time by an English translation. One batch of
correspondence is included in this volume, along with an
introduction that elucidates the role of Adam Marsh in the
political and religious movements of the thirteenth century. A
further set of letters and an index will follow in Volume II.
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