Robert Grosseteste and the Pursuit of Religious and Scientific Learning in the Middle Ages 3319334662, 9783319334660

Robert Grosseteste and the Pursuit of Religious and Scientific Learning in the Middle Ages: 18 [1st ed. 2016] 3319334662, 9783319334660

This book explores a wide range of topics relating to scientific and religious learning in the work of Bishop Robert Gro

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The Lure of the Edge: Scientific Passions, Religious Beliefs, and the Pursuit of UFOs 9780520930278

UFO phenomena entered American consciousness at the beginning of the Cold War, when reports from astonished witnesses of

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The Scientific Achievement of the Middle Ages 9780812292282

Offers a comprehensive introduction to medieval science, presented in the context of an historical narrative. Offers a

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Editing Robert Grosseteste 9781442674271

This collection of essays, in the series on Editorial Problems, offers historical and contextual discussions of several

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Horizontal Learning in the High Middle Ages: Peer-to-Peer Knowledge Transfer in Religious Communities 9789048532919

Cohabiting peers learned from one another in medieval religious communities (11th-12th century), not top-down but peer-t

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Robert of Arbrissel: Sex, Sin, and Salvation in the Middle Ages 0813214394, 9780813214399

Translated with an introduction and notes by Bruce L. Venarde. With a new preface by the author. This book tells the fa

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The Middle Ages and Renaissance

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Aspects of knowledge: Preserving and reinventing traditions of learning in the Middle Ages 9781526107015

This book investigates the role of ‘texts’ – including books, maps, stones and caskets – in the conveyance and transform

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Laity in the Middle Ages, The: Religious Beliefs and Devotional Practices [1 ed.] 0268013098, 9780268013097

In these lively and incisive essays André Vauchez explores the religious beliefs and devotional practices of laypeople i

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Franciscans and the Elixir of Life: Religion and Science in the Later Middle Ages (The Middle Ages Series) 0812249216, 9780812249217

One of the major ambitions of medieval alchemists was to discover the elixir of life, a sovereign remedy capable not onl

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