Essay on the Life and Manners of Robert Grosseteste (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780902832343)

Philip Perry's Essay on the Life and Manners of the Venerable Robert Grosseteste presents us not only with a high standard of biographical scholarship but also a fine example of English eighteenth-century polemical writing. Grosseteste was a formidable thirteenth-century bishop of Lincoln who, because of his insistence upon the primacy of Scripture and his apparent wrangling with the papacy, had long been claimed as a type of proto-Protestant in the English post-Reformation historical tradition. Perry sets out in his Essay a vivid account of Grosseteste's life and achievements to advance his cause as a worthy saint and to recover his reputation as a loyal son of the Roman Church. His frank discussion of the abuses that Grosseteste opposed and the controversies in which he engaged put his text beyond the limits of what a Catholic priest could advisably print in eighteenth-century England. The manuscript remained unpublished for fear of causing scandal, and now sees its first printed edition.

Author: Jack P. Cunningham, Philip Perry
ISBN-10: 0902832344
ISBN-13: 9780902832343
Publisher: Catholic Record Society
Language: English
Published: 06/14/2022
Pages: 300
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.50lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.50w x 1.00d