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Robert Grosseteste and His Intellectual Milieu: New Editions and Studies

Robert Grosseteste and His Intellectual Milieu: New Editions and Studies. via Robert Grosseteste and His Intellectual Milieu: New Editions and Studies. This wonderful new collection of articles on Grosseteste includes a wide variety of the subjects on which Grosseteste wrote: pastoral works, theology and natural philosophy. Articles are accompanied with critical editions and translations ofContinue reading “Robert Grosseteste and His Intellectual Milieu: New Editions and Studies”

Foundation Hour at Liverpool Hope University

I was delighted to be invited to present our work on the De colore at Liverpool Hope’s university-wide seminar series. Prof. Galina Paramei, my host, had heard the paper I presented at the meeting of the International Colour Vision Society (ICVS) in Kongsberg, Norway, back in July 2011, and had noted our project as something that mightContinue reading “Foundation Hour at Liverpool Hope University”

Hannah Smithson speaking at Liverpool Hope Foundation Hour, Wed. 10th 1pm

Those of you lucky enough to be in or around Liverpool this week can catch Hannah giving a Foundation Hour talk at Liverpool Hope University, on Wednesday 10th April, 1pm in the Eden Lecture Theatre. Hannah will be talking on: Foundation Hour – Medieval Science: Colour Decoded by the 13th Century Scholar Robert Grosseteste. http://www.hope.ac.uk/eventsCalendar/t4.do?lang=en&dt=d.en.19973&f=month&d=03/04/2013&sd=Wednesday,10April2013&ac=*

Ordered Universe Workshops

A record of the main collaborative workshops we have held, from the birth of the project to read scientific works of the High Middle Ages in an interdisciplinary forum, to the most recent focused sessions on the treatise on the rainbow. The process of team-building is a long one, and involves forging bonds of trust,Continue reading “Ordered Universe Workshops”

The Durham Grosseteste project…in the words of some of its team members

and now this one, Paul Ging in conversation with Dr Greti Dinkova-Bruun These conversations between Giles and Greti were recorded during Greti’s Michaelmas Term in Durham 2012, as Senior Research Fellow at the Durham Institute of Advanced Study. Amongst the many things she accomplished was the bulk of the editorial work on the De iride….preliminaryContinue reading “The Durham Grosseteste project…in the words of some of its team members”

Ordered Universe Sessions at Porto

These are the details of the three formal sessions we have organised for the FIDEM Congress in Porto: focusing on the treatises on light and on colour. Each session has a mingling (to use a Grossetestian phrase) of scientific and humanities based scholars; all of which are needed to convey the richness and depth ofContinue reading “Ordered Universe Sessions at Porto”