Robert Grosseteste and the pursuit of Religious and Scientific Learning in the Middle Ages

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Rainbows, Light and Optics

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Unity and Symmetry in the De Luce of Robert Grosseteste

      • Brian K. Tanner, Richard G. Bower, Thomas C. B. McLeish, Giles E. M. Gasper

      Pages 3-20

   3. Grosseteste’s Meteorological Optics: Explications of the Phenomenon of the Rainbow After Ibn al-Haytham

      • Nader El-Bizri

      Pages 21-39

   4. Robert Grosseteste and the Pursuit of Learning in the Thirteenth Century

      • Jack P. Cunningham

      Pages 41-57

   5. All the Colours of the Rainbow: Robert Grosseteste’s Three-Dimensional Colour Space

      • Hannah E. Smithson

      Pages 59-84

3. Purity: Physical and Spiritual

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 85-85

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   2. Medicine for the Body and Soul: Healthy Living in the Age of Bishop Grosseteste c. 1100–1400

      • Christopher Bonfield

      Pages 87-102

   3. The Corruption of the Elements: The Science of Ritual Impurity in the Early Thirteenth Century

      • Sean Murphy

      Pages 103-116

4. Robert Grosseteste and Roger Bacon

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 117-117

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   2. From Sapientes antiqui at Lincoln to the New Sapientes moderni at Paris c. 1260–1280: Roger Bacon’s Two Circles of Scholars

      • Jeremiah Hackett

      Pages 119-142

   3. The Theological Use of Science in Robert Grosseteste and Adam Marsh According to Roger Bacon: The Case Study of the Rainbow

      • Cecilia Panti

      Pages 143-163

   4. Laying the Foundation for the Nomological Image of Nature: From Corporeity in Robert Grosseteste to Species in Roger Bacon

      • Yael Kedar

      Pages 165-185

5. Infinities and Transcendentals

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 187-187

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   2. Robert Grosseteste on Transcendentals

      • Gioacchino Curiello

      Pages 189-208

   3. A Theoretical Fulcrum: Robert Grosseteste on (Divine) Infinitude

      • Victor Salas

      Pages 209-220

   4. The Fulfillment of Science: Nature, Creation and Man in the Hexaemeron of Robert Grosseteste

      • Giles E. M. Gasper

      Pages 221-242

6. Science and Faith: Some Lessons from the Thirteenth Century?

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 243-243

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   2. Intelligo ut credam, credo ut intelligam: Robert Grosseteste Between Faith and Reason

      • Angelo Silvestri

      Pages 245-261

   3. Can Science and Religion Meet Over Their Subject-Matter? Some Thoughts on Thirteenth and Fourteenth-Century Discussions

      • Dónall McGinley

      Pages 263-280

This book explores a wide range of topics relating to scientific and religious learning in the work of Bishop Robert Grosseteste (c. 1168–1253) and does so from various perspectives, including those of a twenty-first century scientists, historians, and philosophers as well as several medievalists. In particular, it aims to contribute to our understanding of where to place Grosseteste in the history of science (against the background of the famous claim by A.C. Crombie that Grosseteste introduced what we now might call “experimental science”) and to demonstrate that the polymathic world of the medieval scholar, who recognized no dichotomy in the pursuit of scientific and philosophical/theological understanding, has much to teach those of us in the modern world who wrestle with the vexed question of the relationship between science and religion. The book comprises an edited selection of the best papers presented at the 3rd International Robert Grosseteste Conference (2014) on the theme of scientific and religious learning, especially in the work of Grosseteste.

• Adam Marsh
• God and Science
• Grosseteste
• Grosseteste in the History of Science
• Grosseteste’s Cosmogony
• Medieval Cosmology
• Medieval Science
• Robert Grosseteste Scientific Biography
• Science and Philosophy in Robert
• Science and Religion

• Bishop Grosseteste University, Lincoln, UK

  Jack P. Cunningham

• University of Lincoln, Lincoln, UK

  Mark Hocknull

Dr. Jack P. Cunningham is Academic Coordinator for Theology at Bishop Grosseteste University Lincoln. Previously he has written on the Reformations in both Ireland and Iceland. Publications include, James Ussher and John Bramhall: the Theology and Politics of two Irish Ecclesiastics of the Seventeenth Century (Ashgate, 2007) and Robert Grosseteste his thought and its Impact (Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, 2012).

Dr. Mark D. Hocknull is Chancellor of Lincoln Cathedral and Senior Fellow at the University of Lincoln. He has a PhD in Biochemical Engineering from University College London and a PhD from Lancaster University in Religious Studies. Previous publications include, Pannenberg on Evil, God and Love: the realization of Divine (Ashgate, 2014).-

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