Research Catalog

Title

Compotus / Robert Grosseteste ; edited and translated by Alfred Lohr and C. Philipp E. Nothaft.

Author

Grosseteste, Robert, 1175?-1253

Publication

• Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2019.
• ©2019

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Details

Additional Authors

• Lohr, Alfred
• Nothaft, C. Philipp E.

Description

xvi, 271 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

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

• Grosseteste, Robert, 1175?-1253
• Chronology, Historical
• Astronomy > Early works to 1800
• Astronomy

Genre/Form

Early works.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages [250]-268) and index.

Language (note)

• In Latin with facing English translation.

Call Number

JFD 19-3279

ISBN

• 019882775X
• 9780198827757

LCCN

2018952859

OCLC

1057650332

Author

Grosseteste, Robert, 1175?-1253, author.

Title

Compotus / Robert Grosseteste ; edited and translated by Alfred Lohr and C. Philipp E. Nothaft.

Publisher

Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2019.

Copyright Date

©2019

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages [250]-268) and index.

Language

In Latin with facing English translation.

Added Author

Lohr, Alfred, editor, translator.

Nothaft, C. Philipp E., editor, translator.

Research Call Number

JFD 19-3279