This book examines Robert Grossetestes often underrepresented ideas on education. It uniquely brings together academics from the fields of medieval history, modern science and contemporary education to shed new light on a fascinating medieval figure whose work has an enormous amount to offer anyone with an interest in our educational processes.
The book locates Grosseteste as a key figure in the intellectual history of medieval Europe and positions him as an important thinker who concerned himself with the science of education and set out to elucidate the processes and purposes of learning. This book offers an important practical contribution to the discussion of the contemporary nature and purpose of many aspects of our education processes.
This book will be of interest to students, researchers and academics in the disciplines of educational philosophy, medieval history, philosophy and theology.
Preface
Richard Pring. Emeritus Prof of Education, Oxford University.
Introductory Chapter. Robert Grosseteste and the educational renaissance in Twelfth and thirteenth century Western Europe.
Jack P. Cunningham.
Section One: Robert Grosseteste and the Medieval Ordered Human.
Chapter 1. Deification as the goal of human order according to Robert Grosseteste. Gioacchino Curiello.
Chapter 2. Robert Grosseteste on Eudaimonia, Happiness, and Learning: Why the Nicomachean Ethics may be useful. Rosamund Gammie.
Chapter 3. Robert Grosseteste and the Theory of Learning: The Ordered Human, Robert Grosseteste and Poetry. Charles Roe.
Chapter 4. Gentleness and Discretion: Medieval PerspectivlÓ