Mind, Soul and the Cosmos in the High Middle Ages

Jack P. Cunningham is a Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Bishop Grosseteste University, Lincoln, UK. He has a special interest in philosophy and theology in the high Middle Ages. He is director of the International Robert Grosseteste Study Centre at BGU and he is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Previous publications include Robert Grosseteste: his thought and its Impact, Ed. Jack P Cunningham. Pontifical Institute for Medieval Studies, 2012; Robert Grosseteste and the Pursuit of Religious and Scientific Learning in the Middle-Ages, Eds. J. P. Cunningham & M. Hocknull. Springer, 2016 and Robert Grosseteste and Theories of Education: the Ordered Human. Eds. Jack P. Cunningham and Steven Puttick. Routledge, 2020.

Adam Foxon is a senior lecturer at Bishop Grosseteste University on the Foundation Year program. He also lectures on Theology, Philosophy, and Ethics. He completed his PhD in 2022 entitled, Quod Homo sit Minor Mundus: Robert Grosseteste and the Potentiality of the Material World: Microcosmism and Deification in the Development of a Didactic Weltanschauung. He has worked in schools and colleges around his work at BGU and actively encourages public exposure to the academic world. He is open to conversations surrounding academic outreach, particularly in areas concerning history, philosophy, and religion.

His academic work and interests are incredibly varied. He is a medievalist at heart (12th-13th centuries), but he also delves into other areas, from historical and modern perspectives on the paradigm between science and religion; arguments for the existence of God; the Christian notion of microcosmism; and process theology, to exotheology (theological thought related to extra-terrestrials) and the relationship between religion and football.

Rosamund M. Gammie is a Lecturer in Theology at Bishop Grosseteste University. She has published on the epistemology of Robert Grosseteste (2019) as well as his reaction to the later crusades (2023). She has also co-authored an upcoming paper (2024) with Adam Foxon which proposes a new approach to the twelfth-century Green Children of Woolpit legend. Her current research interests are in collective and collected memories and trauma processes in medieval narratives. She is also interested in popular fiction and its use and abuse of the medieval period, from video games to children's films.

The role of the Cosmic Soul.- John Duns Scotus on God's Concurrence with Natural Agents A defence against the charge of causal over determination.- Robert Grosseteste on how the soul moves the body.- Cosmic Souls in the Latin West in the twelfth Century.- Cosmos as Conduit: Contuition into the High Middle Ages.- The Soul below the level of Intellect.- The Coherence of Memory: Robert Grosseteste on Confession and the Harmony of Body and Soul.- The Figurative Sense and Sensing of Animals in Hugh of St Victor's Didascalicon.- Revelation in alFarabi's Virtuous City.- The Intellect.- Grasping the Quiddities.- Knowledge and the Affectus Mentis in Robert Grosseteste and Bonaventure.- Truth and concepts: the role of the oratio mentalis in William of Ockham and John Buridan.- Gersonides on the Heavenly Bodies Relation to the Agent Intellect.