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The Letters of Adam Marsh - Volume II (Hardcover)
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The Letters of Adam Marsh - Volume II (Hardcover)
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
counselor to King Henry III and the queen, the spiritual director
of Simon de Montfort and his wife, the devoted friend and counselor
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, 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. Volume
II contains a further set of letters and indices to both volumes.
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