Compotus / Robert Grosseteste ; edited and translated by Alfred Lohr and C. Philipp E. Nothaft
- Author
- Grosseteste, Robert, 1175?-1253
- Published
- Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2019.
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Edition
- First edition.
- Physical Description
- xvi, 271 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Additional Creators
- Lohr, Alfred and Nothaft, C. Philipp E.
- Language Note
- In Latin with facing English translation.
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: Disciplinary background -- Authenticity and choice of title -- Date and place of writing -- Reception and afterlife -- Selection of witnesses -- Editorial conventions -- Text And Translation -- Commentary -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- Chapter 8 -- Chapter 9 -- Chapter 10 -- Chapter 11 -- Chapter 12.
- Summary
- "Robert Grosseteste (1168/75-1253), Bishop of Lincoln from 1235-1253, is widely recognized as one of the key intellectual figures of medieval England and as a trailblazer in the history of scientific methodology. Few of his numerous philosophical and scientific writings circulated as widely as the Compotus, a treatise on time reckoning and calendrical astronomy apparently written during a period of study in Paris in the 1220s. Besides its strong and long-lasting influence on later writers, Grossteste's Compotus is particularly noteworthy for its innovatory approach to the theory and practice of the ecclesiastical calendar-a subject of essential importance to the life of the Latin Church. Confronting traditional computistical doctrines with the lessons learned from Graeco-Arabic astronomy, Grosseteste offered his readers a critical and reform-oriented take on the discipline, in which he proposed a specific version of the Islamic lunar as a substitute for the failing nineteen-year cycle the Church still employed to calculate the date of Easter. This new critical edition of Grosseteste's Compotus contains the Latin text with an en-face English translation. It is flanked by an extensive introduction and chapter commentary, which will provide0valuable new insights into the text's purpose and disciplinary background, its date and biographical context, its sources, as well as its reception in later centuries."--
- Subject(s)
- Genre(s)
- ISBN
- 019882775X hardback
9780198827757 hardback - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [250]-268) and index.
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