Robert Grosseteste: On the Six Days of Creation: A Translation of the Hexaëmeron

by Robert Grosseteste

Grosseteste is a crucially important figure in the history of English learning, representing the last flowering of a fully native tradition of scholarship. His Hexaemeron is rare among works of this period in giving such a wide and deep insight into the medieval world view. A work of Grosseteste's early maturity (probably completed around 1235) it is a commentary on the early chapters of Genesis, on the six days of creation, and gives him a context...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0197262082
• ISBN13: 9780197262085
• Release Date: September 1999
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"