Grosseteste in The New Scientist

Posted on May 22, 2012 by

In a March number of The New Scientist there’s a short article entitled, ‘The Grosseteste code: Did a 13th-century English bishop understand what makes our world such a gaudy place?’ (New Scientist, 3/10/2012, Vol. 213, Issue 2855). It deals with a research group at Durham (UK) called ‘Ordered Universe‘ that brings historians and physicists together to discuss the medieval contribution to science. As part of their project they are going to reexamine the manuscript transmission of Grosseteste’s scientific works.

 

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Robert Grosseteste, his Thought and its Impact – new publication

Posted on March 7, 2012 by

This collection of essays, edited by Jack Cunningham, will shortly be available from the press of the Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies (PIMS) and can be pre-ordered from Amazon etc. The volume contains the following essays: James McEvoy, ‘Thomas Gallus Vercellensis and Robertus Grossatesta Lincolniensis: How to make the Ps- Dionysius intelligible to the Latins,’ Catherine Kavanagh, ‘The translation methods of Robert Grosseteste and Johannes Scottus Eriugena: some points of comparison,’ Jean-Michel Counet, ‘Grosseteste’s commentary on the divine names: a cosmological relevance?’ Robert M. Ball, ‘Robert Grosseteste on the Psalms,’ Cecilia Panti, ‘The evolution of the idea of corporeity in Robert Grosseteste’s writings,’ Pietro B. Rossi, ‘Grosseteste’s influence on fourteenth and fifteenth century British commentators on Posterior Analytics: a preliminary survey,’ R. James Long, ‘Between idolatry and Science: The magical arts in the Grosseteste School,’ Anne Hudson, ‘Wyclif and the Grosseteste legacy at Oxford Greyfriars,’ Edgar Laird, ‘Grosseteste, Wyclif, and Chaucer on Universals,’ Neil Lewis, ‘Robert Grosseteste and Richard Rufus of Cornwall on unequal infinites,’ Matthias Hessenauer, ‘For a larger audience: Grosseteste’s Perambulavit Iudas in Anglo-Norman,’ Mark W. Elliott, ‘Robert Grosseteste, the Jews and De Cessatione Legalium,’ James McEvoy, ‘The Mystical Theology commentary of Robert Grosseteste as a source for the Die siben strassen zu got of Rudulph of Biberach, OFM’.

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Conference – Architecture as Cosmology: Lincoln Cathedral and Bishop Robert Grosseteste

Posted on December 14, 2011 by

For the details of Architecture as Cosmology: Lincoln Cathedral and Bishop Robert Grosseteste a conference that will be hosted by the University of Lincoln on 21/22 January 2012 see http://www.lincoln.ac.uk/home/campuslife/whatson/eventsconferences/event%20name,9190,en.html

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Recent members and their interests

Posted on December 1, 2011 by

Sara Harris (Magdalene College, Cambridge, UK). The Chateau d’Amour; Grosseteste’s pastoral works.

Michele Trizio (University of Bari) is preparing a critical edition of Grosseteste’s translations of the commentaries on books 5 (one anonymous and the other by Michael of Ephesus) and 6 (Eustartius of Nicea) of the Nichomachean Ethics. After this he intends to address the Notulae.

Aaron Hope is completing a PhD at University College, London, which deals in part with Grosseteste’s attitude to the episcopal office and the responsibilities of spiritual government. More specifically, he investigates in detail the activities of his deputy, Robert Marsh (brother of Adam Marsh), during the bishop’s absences from the diocese of Lincoln.

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Kalamazoo 2012

Posted on November 19, 2011 by
There will be a reception and book launch by Dallas Medieval Texts and Translations in conjunction with the 47th International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo. This will include a tribute to the late Prof. James McEvoy, the author of one of the volumes being launched by the Dallas series (see post below).
Venue: Kalamazoo House,447 W. South Street, Kalamazoo, MI 49007. Tel. (269) 382-0880. www.thekalamazoohouse.com
Time: Friday, May 11, 2012, 5:30-7:30 p.m.
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Robert Grosseteste at Munich

Posted on November 8, 2011 by
Robert Grosseteste at Munich: The Abbreviatio by Frater Andreas, O.F.M., of the Commentaries by Robert Grosseteste on the Pseudo-Dionysius. Ed. James McEvoy and prepared by Philipp W. Roseman. Dallas Medieval Texts and Translations 14 (Leuven: Peeters, 2012).
Robert Grosseteste at Munich contains an edition, translation, and careful study of a short and hitherto completely neglected text from a manuscript in the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, MS. clm 8827. This codex—a collection of extracts from a broad range of texts conducive to spiritual contemplation—includes an abbreviatio of Robert Grosseteste’s commentaries on the corpus dionysiacum. Professor McEvoy’s detailed introduction identifies the author of the abridgment as one Friar Andreas, a Franciscan of the southern German province who worked in the second quarter of the fifteenth century. McEvoy is able to identify a series of early owners of the codex, which turns out to be intimately connected with the history of the Franciscan community at Munich—indeed, with the history of Munich itself. For, as McEvoy shows, MS. clm 8827 did not remain unaffected by historical turning-points such as the secularization of 1802 and even World War II.Friar Andreas’s text is accompanied by the glosses of ‘Finehand’, a mystically inclined mind who may well have been a Franciscan nun. Finehand represents another layer in the tradition of the reception of the Pseudo-Dionysius, and of Robert Grosseteste’s commentary upon the Pseudo-Dionysius, which this volume minutely chronicles. [From the publisher's website.]
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Thomson Catalogue Project

Posted on July 9, 2011 by

Jim Ginther is beginning a major project to correct and update Thomson’s catalogue of Grosseteste’s writings. It will make the manuscript listings and associated bibliography freely available on the internet. Anyone with additions or correction to Thomson should contact Jim – for further details, please look at the tab on the menu bar of this site.

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De luce – Italian Translation

Posted on July 9, 2011 by

An Italian and Latin edition and translation of De luce has just been published by Pisa University Press. The edition has been prepared by Cecilia Panti and has a preface by Pietro Rossi. Details can be found at http://www.edizioniplus.it/Inglese/AspFiles/libro.asp?codlibro=732

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Grosseteste’s Letters

Posted on October 16, 2010 by

The Letters of Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln translated and edited by F. A. C. Mantello and Joseph Goering is now available from Toronto University Press (ISBN: 0802098134). Frank Mantello is a professor in the Department of Greek and Latin at The Catholic University of America. Joseph Goering is a professor in the Department of History at the University of Toronto. Grosseteste’s letters deal with philosophical and theological aspects of his thought as well as with his work as a bishop. The nineteenth-century edition of the letters (in Latin) by H.R. Luard can be found at http://www.grosseteste.com/letters.htm

 

The Letters of Robert Grosseteste

 

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Westminster Handbook of Medieval Theology

Posted on October 16, 2010 by

The Westminster Handbook Medieval Theology edited by James R. Ginther, the secretary of the society, is now available (Westminster/John Knox Press, 2009. ISBN: 0664223974). It can be previewed on Google Books by clicking here.

Handbook of Medieval Theology

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Death of James McEvoy

Posted on October 16, 2010 by

Rev. Prof. James McEvoy died in October 2010 after a period of illness. He had held chairs of philosophy at Queen’s University Belfast, Louvain and Maynooth (Ireland) and had published extensively on Grosseteste. A founder of the Society, Fr McEvoy was a friend of many of the members and will be sorely missed. His relatives kindly allowed us to send a wreath to the funeral to represent what his brother called his ‘Grosseteste family’.

Fr James McEvoy

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