A quick update on Ordered Universe and related publications: we were delighted to see the Compotus by Grosseteste, edited and translated by Philipp Nothaft and Alfred Lohr make its appliance earlier this year. To this we will be able to the first volume of our series on the other scientific works. Knowing and Speaking
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OxNet North East: The History Of History
OxNet North East: The History Of History. The most recent OxNet session, led by historian Giles Gasper questioned what ‘History’ actually is, and more specifically how we really know things happened in the past.
Through a Glass Darkly: Creative Collaborative Seminar
The next in the Ordered Universe Through a Glass Darkly Creative Collaboration Seminars with the National Glass Centre, University of Sunderland, takes place next week, on January 10th. This time we will be in Durham, at the Department of History and, to top the day off, at the Palace Green Library learning centre to be introduced toContinue reading “Through a Glass Darkly: Creative Collaborative Seminar”
New Members of the Ordered Universe Team
Ordered Universe has two new members of the team starting this month, whom we can welcome officially to their respective roles. Our Administrative Co-ordinator Dr Rachael Matthews stood down at the end of 2016. We all owe Rachael a enormous debt of gratitude for her tireless work in ensuring a proper platform for the project, designing theContinue reading “New Members of the Ordered Universe Team”
The Wise Learn by Doing
The purpose and point of learning were questions that kept Grosseteste awake at night and dominate his surviving writings. From the treatise on the liberal arts, the first paragraph of which stresses the place of the arts in leading human operations to perfection by correcting the, to the sermons, dicta and later theological writings, the endsContinue reading “The Wise Learn by Doing”