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Roger Bacon and the Defence of Christendom

By Amanda Power

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2012
ISBN
0521885221, 9780521885225
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1547639 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series
Pages
312\316
Scanned
yes
Time added
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Description

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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