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ISBN:
9780511843402
Series Statement:
Cambridge studies in medieval life and thought 4th ser., 84
Content:
The English Franciscan Roger Bacon (c.1214–92) holds a controversial but important position in the development of modern science. He has been portrayed as an isolated figure, at odds with his influential order and ultimately condemned by it. This major study, the first in English for nearly sixty years, offers a provocative new interpretation of both Bacon and his environment. Amanda Power argues that his famous writings for the papal curia were the product of his critical engagement with the objectives of the Franciscan order and the reform agenda of the thirteenth-century church. Fearing that the apocalypse was at hand and Christians unprepared, Bacon explored radical methods for defending, renewing and promulgating the faith within Christendom and beyond. Read in this light, his work indicates the breadth of imagination possible in a time of expanding geographical and intellectual horizons
Content:
A life in context -- Traces on parchment -- From the world to God -- The crisis of christendom -- Beyond christendom
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521885225
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107531390
Additional Edition:
Print version ISBN 9780521885225
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
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Theology
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Philosophy
Keywords:
Bacon, Roger 1214-1292
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Christentum
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511843402
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