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Roger Bacon and the Defence of Christendom

Roger Bacon and the Defence of Christendom

Power, Amanda

Hardcover

Series: Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth, Book 84

PhilosophyGeneral European History

ISBN10: 0521885221
ISBN13: 9780521885225
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Oct 4 2012
Pages: 312
Weight: 1.30
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
The English Franciscan, Roger Bacon (ca.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.

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