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	Robert Grosseteste
		Grosseteste was a man of such varied interests and his career was so many-sided that it will be better to touch separately on his numerous activities than to attempt a chronological account of his life.
		Grosseteste Epistolæ", Rolls Series, 1861) to the dean and chapter, and was forced to suspend and ultimately to deprive the dean, while the canons refused to attend in the chapter house.
		Grosseteste before his death was full of anxiety for the state of the country and dread for the civil war which was so soon to break out.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/g/grosseteste,robert.html (2770 words)

	Robert Grosseteste Criticism and Essays
		Grosseteste left the university in 1229 and devoted his time to teaching the young Franciscan friars at Oxford, a practice that led to the humanities becoming a major part in the education of the friars, enabling them to read and interpret sacred Scripture in a critical manner.
		Grosseteste also wrote important essays on meteorology, color, and optics as well as on mathematics; he was one of the first western thinkers to argue that natural phenomena can be described mathematically.
		Critics have asserted that perhaps Grosseteste's greatest achievement was in producing a synthesis of thought in science, philosophy, and theology that was to become central in the intellectual development of the Middle Ages, paving the way for the synthesis of reason and faith that was Aquinas's great contribution.
	www.enotes.com /classical-medieval-criticism/robert-grosseteste (1470 words)

	ORB: The Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies
		Robert Grosseteste was born in 1170 in Suffolk.
		Grosseteste's first known works are on the relations between the sky and the calendar, and he knew (though he was not the only one) that the Julian calendar and the sky were falling out of synch.
		Grosseteste would eventually be a hero to those in the next century who were quite sure that the pope was Antichrist, and that the power of the Roman church in England had to be tamed.
	www.the-orb.net /textbooks/muhlberger/grosseteste.html (2940 words)

	ON LIGHT or THE BEGINNING OF FORMS - ROBERT GROSSETESTE - FULL TEXT - Translated by Clare C. Riedl - Athenaeum Library ...
		Grosseteste’s interest in the natural world was further developed by his study of geometry, and he is one of the first western thinkers to argue that natural phenomenon can be described mathematically.
		During this dispute, Grosseteste produced a treatise on his conception of church leadership, now part of his letter collection, and is one of the most comprehensive discussions of ministry and authority in the medieval church.
		Grosseteste’s last letter is to the papal notary, outlining the theological and canonical reasons why he must resist this appointment.
	evans-experientialism.freewebspace.com /grosseteste.htm (4400 words)

	Robert Grosseteste - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Grosseteste aspired to a post in the bishop's household, but being deprived by death of this patron betook himself to the study of theology.
		According to Bacon, Grosseteste knew little Greek or Hebrew and paid slight attention to the works of Aristotle, but was pre-eminent among his contemporaries for his knowledge of the natural sciences.
		The devotion of Grosseteste to the hierarchical theories of his age is attested by his correspondence with his chapter and the king.
	www.1911ency.org /G/GR/GROSSETESTE_ROBERT.htm (1510 words)

	Robert Grosseteste Summary
		Robert Grosseteste was an unusual combination of scientist and theologian, acclaimed by modern theorists as "...the central figure in England in the intellectual movement during the first half of the thirteenth century." Grosseteste wrote prolifically on...
		Robert Grosseteste was born at Stradbrooke, Suffolk, of humble parents.
		Grosseteste, Robert(C. 1168–1253) Robert Grosseteste was one of the most influential Englishmen of his day—initiator of the English scientific tradition, one of the first chancellors of Oxford University, a famous teacher and commentator on...
	www.bookrags.com /Robert_Grosseteste (409 words)

	GROSSETESTE, ROBERT. The Columbia Encyclopedia: Sixth Edition. 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		His most illustrious pupils, Adam Marsh and Roger Bacon, continued Grosseteste’s work at Oxford after he was made (1235) bishop of Lincoln, then the most populous see of England.
		Grosseteste fought for the maintenance of the Magna Carta.
		Grosseteste did not hestitate to censure Pope Innocent IV for his excessive exactions and for appointing foreigners to rich English benefices; he also attacked the Curia for its corruption and indolence.
	www.bartleby.com /aol/65/gr/Grossete.html (325 words)

	Robert Grosseteste
		According to Bacon, Grosseteste knew little Greek or Hebrew and paid slight attention to the works of Aristotle, but was preeminent among his contemporaries for his knowledge of the natural sciences.
		It was, however, soon made clear that the king and pope were in alliance to crush the independence of the English clergy; and from 1250 onwards Grosseteste openly criticized the new financial expedients to which Pope Innocent IV had been driven by his desperate conflict with the Empire.
		Grosseteste realized that the misrule of Henry III and his unprincipled compact with the papacy largely accounted for the degeneracy of the English hierarchy and the laxity of ecclesiastical discipline.
	www.nndb.com /people/700/000096412 (1327 words)

	Robert Grosseteste - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Grosseteste wrote a number of early works in Latin and French while he was a clerk (see biography below), including one called Chasteau d'amour, an allegorical poem on the creation of the world and Christian redemption, as well as several other poems and texts on household management and courtly etiquette.
		Grosseteste was the first of the Scholastics to fully understand Aristotle's vision of the dual path of scientific reasoning: generalizing from particular observations into a universal law, and then back again from universal laws to prediction of particulars.
		Grosseteste realised that the misrule of Henry III and his unprincipled compact with the papacy largely accounted for the degeneracy of the English hierarchy and the laxity of ecclesiastical discipline.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Robert_Grosseteste (1955 words)

	Robert Grosseteste, Leon Battista Alberti, Leonardo da Vinci
		Robert Grosseteste, first chancellor of Oxford University, was interested in the phenomenon of colour in an entirely fundamental way.
		Grosseteste became aware that colours were not only to be defined according to their brilliance or saturation — we will explain more closely what is meant by these terms — but that their brightness or whiteness also seemed to play a part.
		Grosseteste imagined that Lux clara descended to the colours — by means of a procedure which he named "remission" — and that Lux obscura ascended to the colours — by means of "intention".
	www.colorsystem.com /projekte/engl/02groe.htm (1354 words)

	Medieval Theories of Demonstration (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
		Grosseteste suggests that if the mind were healthy, and unaffected by the Fall, it would be able to see in God the exemplary forms of all the things he had created.
		Grosseteste sees subalternation as a phenomenon revealing a deep metaphysical truth, the truth that a natural material object is always the realization in matter of some higher form that is what it is quite independently of that realization.
		Grosseteste had said that it was subalternate univocally to the science of proportion, for a harmony is a proportion realized in sounds.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/demonstration-medieval (7882 words)

	http://www.uwm.edu/~carlin/doc.grossetesterules.htm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Robert Grosseteste, born circa 1170, was bishop of Lincoln from 1235 to 1253.
		Grosseteste -- his name means "big head"; apparently he had a small body and a large head -- was an intellectual, an Oxford don famed for his grasp of both law and theology.
		Here begin the rules that the good bishop of Lincoln, St Robert Grosseteste, made for the Countess of Lincoln to guard and govern her lands and hostel: whoever will keep these rules well will be able to live on his means, and keep himself and those belonging to him.
	www.uwm.edu /~carlin/doc.grossetesterules.htm (2583 words)

	SHR: Robert Grosseteste
		Grosseteste developed a reputation as a man of deep learning, if at times a rather opaque scholar, especially in his studies of astronomy, mathematics, and theology.
		Grosseteste was not a neat and orderly scholar.
		Indeed after his death (and continuing to this day) there was a great debate as to what works were actually his, what works were merely ascribed to him, and how to handle the many works he had not formally released as they were left unpolished and unfinished.
	www.geocities.com /sanctumhr/Galfraidus/grosseteste.html (1372 words)

	No. 1153: Grosseteste and Bacon
		obert Grosseteste was born in 1168 and educated in the cathedral school at Oxford, in medieval England.
		Grosseteste was an Aristotelian in a Platonist world.
		After Grosseteste died, Bacon set out to convince the Papacy that science and math were a proper arm of theology.
	www.uh.edu /engines/epi1153.htm (482 words)

	Grosseteste, Robert - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		As bishop, Grosseteste was an indefatigable administrator and zealous reformer, visiting the monasteries, assigning suitable candidates to parish offices, and preaching to the people.
		He thwarted efforts of Henry III to control ecclesiastical appointments, and as a member of the baronial council he supported the reforms of Simon de Montfort (1208-65).
		Some historians see in Grosseteste's protests against Rome an influence upon Wyclif and a foreshadowing of the Reformation.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-grossete.html (466 words)

	Mystical Theology
		Grosseteste, on the other hand (as we have indicated in introducing his work on MT), applied all his Greek knowledge and his late-acquired Hellenist and Byzantinist culture to the exegesis of the meaning, which is to say, of the words, of the Pseudo-Dionysius.
		Grosseteste expressed his determination to disregard any aim at readable Latin in his translation and commentary, in favor of a serious, and inevitably quaint and foreign-sounding, exploration of the vocabulary, the thought-structures and the spiritual message of the Pseudo-Areopagite.
		The convergence between the interpretations of MT by Thomas Gallus and Robert Grosseteste, and the complementary nature of their interpretations, attracted the attention of a number of medieval scholars, who individually set scribes to work copying alternating extracts from the Exposicio and the Commentarius.
	www.wordtrade.com /religion/christianity/mysticaltheology.htm (1026 words)

	Robert Grosseteste at Erratic Impact's Philosophy Research Base
		At the climax of one of his most important and comprehensive works, De cessatione legalium, the thirteenth-century theologian and natural philosopher, Robert Grosseteste, uses a musical example to make a point fundamental to the treatise.
		Born in Suffolk, Grosseteste studied and taught at the University of Oxford, where he became one of the most famous teachers of his time.
		He was the university's chancellor from 1215 to 1221, and later lectured to Franciscans there until his appointment as bishop of Lincoln in 1235....
	www.erraticimpact.com /~medieval/html/grosseteste.htm (658 words)

	Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Robert was a peasant lad from Suffolk, born about 1175.
		Back in England, he spoke against unlawful usurpations of power by the monarch, and was one of those present at the signing of the Magna Carta.
		He translated into Latin the Ethics of Aristotle and the theological works of John of Damascus and of the fifth-century writer known as Dionysius the Areopagite.
	justus.anglican.org /resources/bio/262.html (326 words)

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		A reader of Grosseteste, therefore, must take special care to understand the broader interests which Grosseteste brings to bear in a specific work, as well as both the implicit and explicit sources he employs.
		She elegantly captures a fundamental concern of Grosseteste about the relationship between Law and Gospel, particularly in terms of the idea of progression and in terms of natural and positive law (pp.
		While some of the chronology of the writings of Grosseteste is still in dispute, there is a consensus among major Grosseteste scholars that these two works belong to the first decade of the thirteenth century.
	www.infomotions.com /serials/bmmr/bmmr-9506-ginther-theology.txt (2780 words)

	Electronic Grosseteste: A Short Biography of Grosseteste
		Robert Grosseteste Bishop of Lincoln (London, 1899) is still of some use.
		Robert Grosseteste: New Perspectives in his Thought and Scholarship, ed.
		William of Auvergne and Robert Grosseteste (Princeton, 1983).
	www.grosseteste.com /bio.htm (1441 words)

	The Confessing Reader » Blog Archive » Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln, 1253
		Robert Grossteste, one of the outstanding English bishops of the thirteenth century as well as one of the most learned men of the medieval period, rose to prominence in the Church from humble beginnings in Suffolk.
		While it has generally been assumed that Grosseteste went to the schools at Oxford and Paris, there is no early evidence for this.
		In pursuit of a policy of episcopal independence, Grosseteste made an appeal to Pope Innocent the Fourth at Lyons in 1250, travelling to the papal court with a carefully prepared denunciation of the abuses of power in pursuit of personal and family gain by papal officials, by the Curia, and the Pope himself.
	reader.classicalanglican.net /?p=889 (645 words)

	NYSL: Sharpe Collection - Robert Grosseteste: De Cessatione Legalium (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		At Oxford University, Grosseteste left his mark on the institution, which became known for its emphasis on logic, mathematical physics and Aristotelian studies.
		Grosseteste analyzes unwritten, natural law versus written, positive law in light of the Scriptures.
		Anointed Bishop of Lincoln in 1235, Grosseteste was a brilliant reformer.
	www.nysoclib.org /collections/grosseteste_robert.html (431 words)

	AHDS Case Studies: The Electronic Grosseteste (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Academic work on Grosseteste, and much theological research as a whole, is injured by the relative unavailability of texts, many of which are out of print.
		While, obviously, Grosseteste has been dead for several centuries most editions associated with Grosseteste have been produced within the last century, within seventy years of the editor's death, and are therefore still subject to copyright restrictions.
		This phase of the Electronic Grosseteste is founded upon the belief that many scholars will be able to work with an electronic version and a printed version of the relevant texts side by side.
	ahds.ac.uk /performingarts/creating/case-studies/grosseteste/index.htm (2234 words)

	World's Greatest Creation Scientists from Y1K to Y2K
		Robert Grosseteste was a seminal figure in the history of science; some have even characterized him as an early practitioner of the scientific method.
		Grosseteste’s interest in the natural world was further developed by his study of geometry, and he is one of the first western thinkers to argue that natural phenomenon [sic] can be described mathematically.
		Grosseteste is memorable not only for his own scientific pursuits, but also for the fact that he was mentor to Roger Bacon, who caught the spark and envisioned even greater possibilities for the experimental method.
	creationsafaris.com /wgcs_1.htm (15371 words)

	Robert Grosseteste
		Grosseteste's Translation of the Prologos and Scholia of Maximus to the Writings of the Pseudo-Dionysius Areopagita.
		A C Crombie, Robert Grosseteste and the Origins of Experimental Science 1100-1700 (Oxford, 1971).
		Robert Grossesteste: On the Six Days of Creation (A Translation of the HexaКmeron).
	antology.rchgi.spb.ru /Robert_Grosseteste/_biblio_rus.htm (149 words)

	Grosseteste biography
		He believed that experimentation must be used to verify a theory by testing its consequences.
		Grosseteste realised that the hypothetical space in which Euclid imagined his figures was the same everywhere and in every direction.
		Grosseteste also made Latin translations of many Greek and Arabic scientific writings.
	www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk /history/Biographies/Grosseteste.html (243 words)

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