Philosopher
Robert Grosseteste
Overview
Robert Grosseteste ( GROHS-test; Latin: Robertus Grosseteste; c. 1168–70 – 8 or 9 October 1253), also known as Robert Greathead or Robert of Lincoln, was an English statesman, scholastic philosopher, theologian, scientist and Bishop of Lincoln. He was born of humble parents in Suffolk (according to the early 14th-century chronicler Nicholas Trivet), but the association with the village of Stradbroke is a post-medieval tradition. Upon his death, he was revered as a saint in England, but attempts to procure a formal canonisation failed. A. C. Crombie called him "the real founder of the tradition of scientific thought in medieval Oxford, and in some ways, of the modern English intellectual tradition". As a theologian, however, he contributed to increasing hostility to Jews and Judaism, and spread the accusation that Jews had purposefully suppressed prophetic knowledge of the coming of Christ, through his translation of the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs.
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Philosophers who discussed Robert Grosseteste
- Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite
- Roger Bacon
- Al-Kindi
- Nicole Oresme
- Simplicius of Cilicia
- Adelard of Bath
- Richard Rufus of Cornwall
Ideas Robert Grosseteste discusses
- Avicenna
- Book of Genesis
- Western philosophy
- Jerome
- Meteorology (Aristotle)
- Physics (Aristotle)
- Posterior Analytics
- Boethius
- Tyrant
- Oxford
- Optics
- Physicist
- Beatification
- Archbishop of Canterbury
- Usury
- Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite
- Roger Bacon
- Medieval philosophy
- Scientific method
- Al-Kindi
- Galileo Galilei
- Durham University
- Theology
- Aristotle
Place in the tradition
Part of British philosophy.