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- Gieben, Servus, 1962, “Bibliographia universa Roberti
Grosseteste ab anno 1473 ad annum 1969,” Collectanea
Franciscana, 39: 362–418. (Scholar)
- Gieben, Servus, 1995, “Robertus Grosseteste: Bibliographia
1970–1991,” in Robert Grosseteste: New Perspectives on
his Thought and Scholarship, ed. James McEvoy, Turnhout: Brepols,
415–431. (Scholar)
- Thomson, S. Harrison, 1940, The Writings of Robert
Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln, 1235–1253, Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
Important biographical material may also be found in a number of
the more general studies listed below, especially Southern 1986 and
McEvoy 1982, 2000. Grosseteste’s early career remains a matter of
controversy. The literature is filled with unjustified assertions of
fact and outright errors regarding this part of his life and readers
must be on their guard.
- Callus, Daniel A., 1945, “The Oxford Career of Robert
Grosseteste,” Oxoniensia 10 (1945): 42–72. (Scholar)
- Ginther, James R., 2000, “Natural Philosophy and Theology at Oxford in the Early Thirteenth Century,” Medieval Sermon Studies 44 (2000): 108–134. (Scholar)
- Goering, Joseph, 1995, “Where and When did Grosseteste
Study Theology?,” in Robert Grosseteste: New Perspectives on
his Thought and Scholarship, ed. James McEvoy, Turnhout: Brepols,
17–51. (Scholar)
- Schulman, N. M., 1997, “Husband, Father, and Bishop? Grosseteste in Paris,” Speculum 72 (1997): 330–346. [Argues on the basis of documentary sources that Grosseteste lived in Paris as a married (and ultimately widowed) father prior to teaching at Oxford and his episcopacy. This view is criticized by McEvoy 2003, 19–20, who notes Grosseteste’s remark in one of his prayers that he had never polluted his body with the stain of the flesh.] (Scholar)
It should be noted that the quotations from texts in Baur 1912 and
Dales 1963a above at times rely on tacit alterations I have made to
the Latin text on the basis of my own consultation of the
manuscripts.
- Baur, Ludwig (ed.), 1912, Die Philosophischen Werke des
Robert Grosseteste, Bischofs von Lincoln, Beiträge zur
Geschichte der Philosophie des Mittelalters, 9, Münster:
Aschendorff Verlag. [The standard edition of Grosseteste’s
philosophical works and scientific opuscula. A number of works in it
have been reedited, as noted below; the rest should be reedited, as
this edition is unreliable.] (Scholar)
- Dales, Richard C. (ed.), 1963a,
Roberti Grosseteste episcopi Lincolniensis commentarius in viii libros
Physicorum Aristotelis, Boulder: University of Colorado Press.
[Unfortunately a flawed edition of this important work that must be used
with great caution. A new edition is in preparation by N. Lewis and P.
King.] (Scholar)
- Dales, Richard C. (ed.), 1963b, “Robert Grosseteste’s Treatise
De finitate motus et temporis,” Traditio, 19:
245–266. [Supersedes the edition in Baur 1912.] (Scholar)
- Dales, Richard C. and Gieben, Servus (eds.), 1982, Hexaæmeron, Auctores Britannici Medii Aevi, 6, London: The British Academy. (Scholar)
- Dales, Richard C. and King, Edward B. (eds.), 1986, De cessatione legalium, Auctores Britannici Medii Aevi 7, London: The British Academy. (Scholar)
- Dales, Richard C. and King, Edward B. (eds.), 1987, De decem mandatis, Auctores Britannici Medii Aevi 10, Oxford: The British Academy. (Scholar)
- Dinkova-Bruun, Greti et al., (eds. and trans.), 2013, The Dimensions of Colour: Robert Grosseteste’s De colore, Toronto: The Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies. (Scholar)
- Goering, Joseph and Westermann, Edwin J. (eds.), 2003,
Dicta, [Available online]. [A
transcription of all 147 dicta as found in the manuscript Oxford,
Bodleian Library MS Bodley 798 (s.c. 2656). A useful working text
with no pretensions to be definitive.] (Scholar)
- Lewis, Neil, 2017, Robert Grosseteste On Free Decision , Auctores Britannici Medii Aevi 29, Oxford: Oxford University Press. Editions and English translation of the two recensions of Grosseteste’s De libero arbitrio. [Supersede the editions in Baur 1912.] (Scholar)
- Lewry, P. Osmund (ed.), 1983, “Robert Grosseteste’s Question on
Subsistence: An Echo of the Adamites,” in Mediaeval Studies
45 (1983), 1–21. [Contains an edition of the short work De
subsistentia rei.] (Scholar)
- Luard, Henry R. (ed.), 1861, Roberti Grosseteste Episcopi
quondam Lincolniensis Epistolae, Rerum Britannicarum Medii Aevi
Scriptores, Rolls Series 25, London: Longman. [Luard’s edition of
Grossteste’s first letter, though older, is better than that found in
Baur 1912, where Baur prints it, following many manuscripts, as the
two works De unica forma omnium and De
intelligentiis.] (Scholar)
- McEvoy, James (ed.), 1974, “The Sun as res and
signum: Grosseteste’s commentary on Ecclesiasticus,
ch. 43, vv. 1–5,” Recherches de théologie ancienne et
médiévale, 41 (1974), 38–91; reprinted in McEvoy
1994. [This commentary is also known as De operationibus
solis.] (Scholar)
- McEvoy, James (ed.), 1980, “Robert Grosseteste’s Theory of Human Nature. With the text of his conference Ecclesia Sancta Celebrat,” Recherches de théologie ancienne et médiévale 47 (1980), 131–187; reprinted in McEvoy 1994. [This sermon is an important text for Grosseteste’s late views on human nature.] (Scholar)
- Panti, Cecilia (ed.), 2001, Moti, virtù e motori celesti nella cosmologia di Roberto Grossatesta, Florence: Sismel: Edizioni del Galluzo. [Critical editions of De sphaera, De cometis, De motu supercaelestium that supersede the editions of these works in Baur.] (Scholar)
- Panti, Cecilia, 2011, Roberto Grossatesta, La Luce,
Pisa: Edizioni Plus-Pisa university press. [Text of the critical
edition in Panti 2013, but without the critical apparatus. The Latin text is accompanied by an Italian translation and
commentary in Italian.] (Scholar)
- Panti, Cecilia, 2013, “Robert Grosseteste’s De
luce: A Critical Edition,” in Robert Grosseteste and
His Intellectual Milieu, ed. John Flood, James R. Ginther and
Joseph W. Goering, Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies,
193–238. [A critical edition of De luce that supersedes
the edition in Baur.] (Scholar)
- Rosemann, Philipp W. (ed.), 1995, Tabula, in Corpus
Christianorum Continuatio Mediaevalis, 130, Turnhout: Brepols. (Scholar)
- Rossi, Pietro (ed.), 1981, Commentarius in Posteriorum
Analyticorum Libros. Florence: Leo S. Olschki. (Scholar)
- Crombie, A. C., 1955, “Grosseteste’s Position in the History of
Science,” in Robert Grosseteste: Scholar and Bishop,
ed. Daniel A. Callus, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 98–120. Contains a
translation of De calore solis (116–120). [The authenticity of this work is challenged in Panti 2013.] (Scholar)
- Dales, Richard C., 1966, “The Text of Robert Grosseteste’s
Questio de fluxu et refluxu maris with an English
translation,” Isis 57 (1966), 468–473; reprinted in A
Source Book in Medieval Science, ed. Edward Grant, Cambridge,
Mass.: Harvard University Press, 640–644; and in Dales 1973. [The authenticity of this work is challenged in Dales 1977, Southern 1986, and Panti 2013.] (Scholar)
- Dales, Richard C., 1973, The Scientific Achievement of the
Middle Ages, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania
Press. Contains translations of De impressionibus elementorum, De calore solis and De fluxu et refluxu maris. [The authenticity of the last work is challenged in Dales 1977, Southern
1986,and Panti 2013. Panti 2013 also challenges the authenticity of De calore solis] (Scholar)
- Goering, Joseph and Mantello, F.A.C., 2010, The Letters of
Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln, Toronto: University of
Toronto Press. An annotated translation of Grosseteste’s letters,
including the first letter, which circulated in the middle ages as two
works, De unica forma omnium and De
intelligentiis. (Scholar)
- Hilderbrand, Stephen M., 2012, On the Cessation of the
Laws, The Fathers of the Church, Medieval Continuation, vol. 13,
Washington D.C.: Catholic University of America Press. A translation
of De cessatione legalium. (Scholar)
- Lewis, Neil, 2013, “Robert Grosseteste’s On Light: An English Translation,” in Robert Grosseteste and His Intellectual Milieu, ed. John Flood, James R. Ginther and Joseph W. Goering, Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 239–247. A translation of De luce based on the critical edition in Panti 2013. (Scholar)
- Lewis, Neil, 2017, Robert Grosseteste On Free Decision , Auctores Britannici Medii Aevi 29, Oxford: Oxford University Press. Editions and English translation of the two recensions of Grosseteste’s De libero arbitrio. [Supersedes the editions in Baur 1912.] (Scholar)
- Lindberg, David C., 1974, A Source Book in Medieval
Science, ed. Edward Grant, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University
Press, 385–391. Translations of De lineis, angulis et figuris
and De iride. (Scholar)
- McKeon, Richard, 1929, Selections from Medieval Philosophers, Vol. 1. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 263–287. Translations of De veritate, De veritate propositionis, and De scientia Dei based on the text in Baur 1912. (Scholar)
- Martin, C. F. J., 1996, On the Six Days of Creation: A
Translation of the Hexaæmeron, Auctores Britannici Medii
Aevi, 6(2), Oxford: The British Academy. (Scholar)
- Baur, Ludwig, 1917, Die Philosophie des Robert Grosseteste, Bischofs von Lincoln, Beiträge zur Geschichte der Philosophie des Mittelalters, 18, Münster: Aschendorff Verlag. (Scholar)
- Callus, Daniel A., 1955, “Robert Grosseteste as Scholar,” in
Robert Grosseteste: Scholar and Bishop, ed. Daniel A. Callus,
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1–69. (Scholar)
- Crombie, A. C. , 1953, Robert Grosseteste and the Origins of Experimental Science 1100–1700. Oxford: Clarendon Press. [An important but controversial book.] (Scholar)
- Dales, Richard C., 1961, “Robert Grosseteste’s Scientific
Works,” Isis, 52: 381–402. (Scholar)
- –––, 1977, “Adam Marsh, Robert Grosseteste
and the Treatise on the Tides,” Speculum, 52:
900–901. (Scholar)
- –––, 1986, “Robert Grosseteste’s
Place in Medieval Discussions of the Eternity of the
World,” Speculum, 61: 544–563. (Scholar)
- Dionisotti, A. C., 1988, “On the Greek Studies of Robert
Grosseteste,” in The Uses of Greek and Latin: Historical
Essays, ed. A. C. Dionisotti, Anthony Grafton, and Jill Kraye,
London:Warburg, 19–39. (Scholar)
- Eastwood, Bruce S., 1968, “Medieval Empiricism: the Case of
Grosseteste’s Optics,” Speculum, 43: 306–321. (Scholar)
- Evans, Gillian R., 1983, “The Conclusiones of Robert
Grosseteste’s Commentary on the Posterior Analytics,”
Studi medievali ser., 3(24): 724–734. (Scholar)
- Gauthier, R. A., 1982, “Notes sur les débuts
(1225–1240) du premier
‘averröisme’,” Revue des Sciences
philosophiques et théologiques, 66: 321–374. (Scholar)
- Gieben, Servus, 2002, “Grosseteste and Universal Science,” in
Robert Grosseteste and the Beginnings of a British Theological
Tradition, ed. Maura O’Carrol, Rome: Istituto storico dei
Cappucini, 219–238. (Scholar)
- Gilson, Étienne, 1926–7, “Porquoi saint Thomas a critiqué saint Augustin,” Archives d’Histoire Doctrinale et Littéraire du Moyen Age, 1: 5–127. (Scholar)
- Laird, W. R., 1987, “Robert Grosseteste on the Subalternate
Sciences,” Traditio, 43: 147–169. (Scholar)
- Laird, Edgar, 2013,“Robert Grosseteste, Ptolemy, and Christian Knowledge,” in Robert Grosseteste and His Intellectual Milieu, ed. John Flood, James R. Ginther and Joseph W. Goering, Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 131–152. (Scholar)
- Lewis, Neil, 1996, “Power and Contingency in Robert Grosseteste
and Duns Scotus,” in John Duns Scotus: Metaphysics and
Ethics, Ludger Honnefelder, Rega Wood and Mechthild Dreyer (eds.),
Leiden: E. J. Brill, 205–225. (Scholar)
- –––, 1998, “The Problem of a Plurality of Eternal Beings in Robert Grosseteste,” Medieval Philosophy and Theology, 7: 17–38. (Scholar)
- –––, 2003, “Robert Grosseteste’s Notes on the Physics,” in Editing Robert Grosseteste, ed. Evelyn A. Mackie and Joseph Goering, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 103–134. (Scholar)
- –––, 2005, “Robert Grosseteste and the
Continuum” in
Albertus Magnus and the Beginnings of the Medieval Reception of
Aristotle in the Latin West, Ludger Honnefelder, Rega Wood,
Mechthild Dreyer and Marc-Aeilko Aris (eds.), Münster: Aschendorff
Verlag, 159–187. (Scholar)
- –––, 2009, “Grosseteste on Being,” Modern Schoolman, 86: 25–46. (Scholar)
- –––, 2012, “Robert Grosseteste and Richard Rufus
of Cornwall on Unequal Infinites,” in Robert Grosseteste His
Thought and Its Impact, ed. Jack P. Cunningham, Toronto:
Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 227–256. (Scholar)
- –––, 2013, “Libertas arbitrii in Robert
Grosseteste’s De libero arbitrio,” in Robert
Grosseteste and His Intellectual Milieu, ed. John Flood, James
R. Ginther and Joseph W. Goering, Toronto: Pontifical Institute of
Mediaeval Studies, 11–33. (Scholar)
- Longeway, John L., 2007, Demonstration and scientific knowledge in William of Ockham : a translation of Summa logicae III-II : De syllogismo demonstrativo, and selections from the prologue to the ordinatio, Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press [See pp. 13–46 for an account of Grosseteste’s views on demonstrative science.] (Scholar)
- Lynch, Lawrence E., 1941, “The Doctrine of Divine Ideas and Illumination in Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln,” Mediaeval Studies, 3: 161–173. (Scholar)
- Marrone, Steven P., 1983, William of Auvergne and Robert Grosseteste: New Ideas of Truth in the Early Thirteenth Century, Princeton N.J.: Princeton University Press. [An important study of Grosseteste’s epistemology, though Marrone’s view that Grosseteste was distancing himself from an illuminationist epistemology in the commentary on the Posterior Analytics is generally rejected by scholars.] (Scholar)
- –––, 1986, “Robert Grosseteste on the Certitude
of Induction,” in L’Homme et son univers a moyen âge,
ed. Christian Wenin, Editions de l’Institut supérieur de
philosophie, 2 vols. Philosophes Médiévaux,
26–27: Louvain-la-Neuve, 2.481–488. (Scholar)
- McEvoy, James, 1982, The Philosophy of Robert Grosseteste, Oxford: Clarendon Press; corrected reprint, 1986. [A magisterial study of Grosseteste’s thought. This work includes significant material on Grosseteste’s theological views in his commentaries on the pseudo-Dionysius.] (Scholar)
- –––, 1983, “The Chronology of Robert
Grosseteste’s Writings on Nature and Natural Philosophy,”
Speculum, 58: 614–655; reprinted in McEvoy 1994. (Scholar)
- –––, 1994, Robert Grosseteste, Exegete and Philosopher, Aldershot: Variorum. [A collection of articles written by this pre-eminent student of Grosseteste.] (Scholar)
- –––, 2000, Robert Grosseteste, Oxford: Oxford University Press. [An excellent overview of Grosseteste’s life and thought; essential first reading for the prospective student of Grosseteste.] (Scholar)
- –––, 2003, “Robert Grosseteste: The Man and His Legacy,” in Editing Robert Grosseteste, ed. Evelyn A. Mackie and Joseph Goering, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 3–29. (Scholar)
- McEvoy, James (ed.), 1995, Robert Grosseteste: New Perspectives on his Thought and Scholarship, Patristica, 27, Turnhout: Brepols. (Scholar)
- Noone, Timothy, 2010, “Truth, Creation, and Intelligibility in Anselm, Grosseteste, and Bonaventure,” in Truth: Studies of a Robust Presence, ed. Kurt Pritzl, Catholic University of America Press,
102–126. (Scholar)
- Oliver, Simon, 2004, “Robert Grosseteste on Light, Truth and Experimentum,” Vivarium, 42: 151–180. (Scholar)
- Palma, Robert J., 1975, “Robert Grosseteste’s Understanding of
Truth,” Irish Theological Quarterly, 42: 300–306. (Scholar)
- –––, 1976, “Grosseteste’s Ordering of
Scientia,” New Scholasticism, 50: 447–463. (Scholar)
- Panti, Cecilia, 1999, “L’incorporazione della luce
secundo Roberto Grossatesta,” Medioevo e Rinascimento
13, n.s. 10: 45–102.
- –––, 2003, “Robert Grosseteste’s Early Cosmology,” in
Editing Robert Grosseteste, ed. Evelyn A. Mackie and Joseph
Goering, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 135–165. (Scholar)
- –––, 2012, “The Evolution of the Idea of
Corporeity in Robert Grosseteste’s Writings,” in Robert
Grosseteste His Thought and Its Impact, ed. Jack P. Cunningham,
Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies,
111–139. (Scholar)
- –––, 2013, “Robert Grosseteste and Adam of
Exeter’s Physics of Light: Remarks on the Transmission, Authenticity,
and Chronology of Grosseteste’s Scientific Opuscula,”
in Robert Grosseteste and His Intellectual Milieu, ed. John
Flood, James R. Ginther and Joseph W. Goering, Toronto: Pontifical
Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 165–190. (Scholar)
- –––, 2017, “Matter and Infinity in Robert Grosseteste’s De luce and Notes on the Physics,”
in Materia: Nouvelles perspectives de recherche dans la pensée et la culture médiévales (XIIe-XVIe siècles), ed. Tiziana Suarez-Nani and Agostino Paravicini Baliani, Florence: SISMEL, 27–55. (Scholar)
- Pickavé, Martin, 2017, “Robert Grosseteste on Free Choice,” in From Learning to Love: Schools, Law, and Pastoral Care in the Middle Ages: Essays in Honour of Joseph W. Goering, ed. Tristan Sharp, Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 70–89. (Scholar)
- Rossi, Pietro, 1995, “Robert Grosseteste and the Object of
Scientific Knowledge,” in Robert Grosseteste: New Perspectives on
his Thought and Scholarship, ed. James McEvoy, Instrumenta
Patristica, 27, Turnhout: Brepols, 53–76. (Scholar)
- –––, 2012, “Grosseteste’s Influence on
Thirteenth- and Fourteenth-Century British Commentaries
on Posterior Analytics,” in Robert Grosseteste His
Thought and Its Impact, ed. Jack P. Cunningham, Toronto:
Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 140–166. (Scholar)
- Serene, Eileen F., 1979, “Robert Grosseteste on Induction and Demonstrative Science,” Synthese, 40: 97–115. [A response to Crombie 1953.] (Scholar)
- Smith, Brett W., 2018, “A Theme Song of His Life: Aspectus and Affectus in the Writings of Robert Grosseteste,” Franciscan Studies, 76: 1–22. (Scholar)
- Southern, Sir Richard, 1986, Robert Grosseteste: The Growth of an English Mind in Medieval Europe, Oxford: Clarendon Press; second edition 1992. [One of the most important works on Grosseteste in recent years. The second edition contains a long reply to some criticisms of the first edition.] (Scholar)
- Van Dyke, Christina, 2009, “An Aristotelian Theory of
Divine Illumination: Robert Grosseteste’s Commentary on
the Posterior Analytics,” British Journal for the
History of Philosophy, 17: 685–704. (Scholar)
- –––, 2010, “The Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing but the Truth: Robert Grosseteste on Universals (and the Posterior Analytics),” Journal of the History of Philosophy, 48: 153–170. (Scholar)
- Wallace, William A., 1972, Causality and Scientific Explanation. I: Medieval and Early Classical Science. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. [Chapter 2 discusses Grosseteste’s account of demonstrative science.] (Scholar)