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Roberti Grosseteste Episcopi quondam Lincolniensis epistolae (Paperback)
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Roberti Grosseteste Episcopi quondam Lincolniensis epistolae (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Rolls
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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 a violence of opinion that was 'balanced, indeed
prompted, by a deep concern for the souls of ordinary people'.
Henry Richards Luard (1825 91) puts Grosseteste's writing into
context in his preface, while useful summaries of each letter in
the contents list, and commentary provided in the side-notes, make
the Latin text accessible to modern readers.
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