Roger Bacon and the Defence of Christendom - Amanda Power

Roger Bacon and the Defence of Christendom

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Buch | Hardcover
312 Seiten
2012
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-0-521-88522-5 (ISBN)
109,95 inkl. MwSt
This first study of Roger Bacon in English for sixty years sets his thought within the religious and intellectual context of the Franciscan order. Amanda Power's provocative new reading argues that his most famous works were intended to defend, renew and promulgate the faith within Christendom and beyond.
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.

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

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

Erscheint lt. Verlag 4.10.2012
Reihe/Serie Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series
Verlagsort Cambridge
Sprache englisch
Maße 157 x 235 mm
Gewicht 600 g
Themenwelt Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Mittelalter
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Religionsgeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie des Mittelalters
Religion / Theologie Christentum Kirchengeschichte
ISBN-10 0-521-88522-1 / 0521885221
ISBN-13 978-0-521-88522-5 / 9780521885225
Zustand Neuware
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