Publisher's Synopsis
The 65th year of a scholar who has devoted 40 years to editing and elucidating Robert Grosseteste provides us with a collection of essays. Not surprisingly, they emanate from colleagues and former students of Richard Dales and reflect his interest, among other concerns, in Grosseteste's ""aspectus et affectus"" - range of vision and disposition of mind - those twin peaks with which the 13th century thinker helped to get Christian thought through Aristotle without mutual destruction. Joining Sir Richard Southern are 8 scholars whose contributions fill two parts of this book, ""Robert Grosseteste"" and ""Medieval Intellectual Life"". In addition to essays on Grosseteste are articles on Hugh of Amiens, Alfred of Sareschel's commentary on Avicenna, the Oxford Condemnations of 1277, a 13th-century teaching aid, and canonistic determinations on the stages of childhood.
