Roger Bacon and the Defence of Christendom

Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-1-107-53139-0
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 84, 314 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 457 g

Reihe: Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Power, Amanda

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Kirchengeschichte Theologenbiographien, Religiöse Führer

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; 1. A life in context; 2. Traces on parchment; 3. From the world to God; 4. In defence of Christendom; 5. Beyond Christendom.

Über Autor(innen)

Power, Amanda
Amanda Power is a lecturer in medieval history at the University of Sheffield.