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Record Nr.

UNINA9910806865103321

Titolo

Editing Robert Grosseteste : papers given at the thirty-sixth annual Conference on Editorial Problems, University of Toronto, 3-4 November 2000 / / edited by Evelyn A. Mackie and Joseph Goering

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2003

©2003

ISBN

1-281-99480-4

9786611994808

1-4426-7427-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (225 p.)

Collana

Previous Conference Publications ; ; 2000

Disciplina

189.4

Soggetti

Manuscripts, Medieval - Editing

HISTORY / Medieval

Actes de congres.

Conference papers and proceedings.

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : editing Robert Grosseteste / Joseph Goering -- Robert Grosseteste : the man and his legacy / James McEvoy -- The Super Psalterium in context / James R. Ginther -- Scribal intervention and the question of audience : editing Le Château d'amour / Evelyn A. Mackie -- Robert Grosseteste and the Corpus Dionysiacum : accessing spiritual realities through the Word / Candice Taylor Quinn -- Robert Grosseteste's Notes on the Physics / Neil Lewis -- Robert Grosseteste's early cosmology / Cecilia Panti -- On not editing Grosseteste / Jennifer Moreton.

Sommario/riassunto

Thirteenth-century theologian, philosopher, and church leader, Robert Grosseteste was one of the most learned men and respected scholars of his time. Elected as the Bishop of Lincoln in 1235, a post he held until his death in 1253, Grosseteste was something of a polymath,



exploring subjects ranging from the natural sciences (physics, cosmography, etc.) to pastoral care and speculative theology. More than 1000 medieval manuscripts of his works are scattered in libraries throughout Europe, and as a result there are immense challenges faced by editors who wish to provide modern critical editions of his works. This collection of essays, in the series on Editorial Problems, offers historical and contextual discussions of several of Grosseteste's works, including the Super Psalterium, Le Chateau d'amour, and Grosseteste's translation of the pseudo-Dionysian Ecclesiastical Hierarchy, among others. In addressing specific aspects of the editorial process? questions of authenticity, chronology, textual transmission, editorial practice, and contemporary sources and influences? the contributors provide new insight into Grosseteste's work through the use of both traditional and cross-disciplinary approaches.