The Scientific Works of Robert Grosseteste, Volume 1 Knowing and Speaking: Robert Grosseteste's De artibus liberalibus 'On the Liberal Arts' and De generatione sonorum 'On the Generation of Sounds'

by Gasper, Giles E. M.; Panti, Cecilia; McLeish, Tom; Smithson, Hannah E.

• ISBN13: 9780198805519
• ISBN10: 0198805519
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2020-01-06
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Summary

Few figures of the Middle Ages command the attention of so many modern disciplines as Robert Grosseteste (c. 1170-1253). Theology, Philosophy, History, and Science are all areas which his life and thought continue to have significance and to inspire re-interpretation. Accompanied by a series of original commentaries, this new edition of Grosseteste's work, with English translation, draws together the perspectives of modern scientists and medieval specialists. Volume I of a six volume series, Knowing and Speaking presents two of the earliest of Grosseteste's works, the treatises On the Liberal Arts and On the Generation of Sounds. These are accompanied by a significant Middle English treatise on the Seven Liberal Arts whose anonymous fifteenth-century author translated and excerpted passages from Grosseteste's treatises in a re-imagining of their structure and function.

Each work is treated separately within the volume, which is constructed in three parts. On the Liberal Arts sets Grosseteste's thoughts on the arts subjects and emphasises moral concerns about the purpose of learning. On the Generation of Sounds builds on the theories and statements of On the Liberal Arts in connection to the production of sound, elaborating the earlier position, relating the generation of sounds to human vocal and speech production.

Author Biography

Giles E. M. Gasper, Professor of High Medieval History, Durham University,Cecilia Panti, Associate Professor in History of Medieval Philosophy, University of Rome,Tom McLeish, Professor of Natural Philosophy, University of York,Hannah E. Smithson, Associate Professor, University of Oxford

Giles E. M. Gasper is Professor of High Medieval History in the Department of History at Durham University.

Cecilia Panti is Associate Professor in History of Medieval Philosophy in the Department of Literature, Philosophy, and the History of Art at the University of Rome.

Tom McLeish FRS is Professor of Natural Philosophy in the Department of Physics at the Centre for Medieval Studies and Humanities Research Centre at the University of York.


Hannah E. Smithson is Associate Professor in the Department of Experimental Psychology and Tutorial Fellow at Pembroke College, University of Oxford.

Table of Contents

List of Figures
List of Boxes
List of Tables
Abbreviations
List of contributors
Introduction, Giles E. M. Gasper, Cecilia Panti, Tom C. B. McLeish, and Hannah E. Smithson
Part 1: On the Liberal Arts
1. On the Liberal Arts and its Historical Context, Giles E. M. Gasper
2. The Liberal Arts: Inheritances and Conceptual Frameworks, Giles E. M. Gasper, Sigbjorn O. Sonnesyn, Nicola Polloni, Neil Lewis, and Jack P. Cunningham
3. On the Liberal Arts: Manuscripts, Sigbjorn O. Sonnesyn, Giles E. M. Gasper, Cecilia Panti, and Neil Lewis
4. On the Liberal Arts: Translation, Historiography, and Synopsis, Sigbjorn O. Sonnesyn, Giles E. M. Gasper, Cecilia Panti, and Neil Lewis
Latin Edition and English Translation of On the Liberal Arts, Translated by Sigbjorn O. Sonnesyn
5. The Trivium , Neil Lewis
6. The Quadrivium and the Discipline of Music, Cecilia Panti
7. Aristotle in On the Liberal Arts: An Exploration of Possibilities, Sigbjorn O. Sonnesyn, Tom C. B. McLeish, and Giles E. M. Gasper
8. The Use of the Stars: Alchemy, Plants, and Medicine, Giles E. M. Gasper, Nicola Polloni, Sigbjorn O. Sonnesyn, Anne Lawrence Mathers, and Nader El-Bizri
Part 2: On the Generation of Sounds
9. Sounding a Sonativum: On the Generation of Sounds in Historical Context, Giles E. M. Gasper
10. On the Generation of Sounds: Manuscripts, Sigbjorn O. Sonnesyn
11. On the Generation of Sounds: Translation, Historiography, and Synopsis, Sigbjorn O. Sonnesyn, Giles E. M. Gasper, Cecilia Panti, and Neil Lewis
Latin Edition and English Translation of On the Generation of Sounds, Translated by Sigbjorn O. Sonnesyn
12. A Question of the Soul: Augustine, Alfred of Sareshel and John Blund, Giles E. M. Gasper and Sigbjorn O. Sonnesyn
13. Aristotle, Priscian, and Isidore, Sigbjorn O. Sonnesyn and Giles E. M. Gasper
14. Sound, Movement and the Sonativum, Tom C. B. McLeish, Clive Siviour, and Hannah E. Smithson
15. Instrumental Motions: Shaping and Perceiving Speech Sounds, Joshua S. Harvey, Rebekah C. White, Hannah E. Smithson, Tom C. B. McLeish, David M. Howard, and John Coleman
16. Sound, Light and Cosmic Music: Grosseteste's Commentary on Posterior Analytics and the pseudo-Grossetestian Glosses to Boethius, Cecilia Panti
Part 3: The Seven Liberal Arts
17. A Middle English Grosseteste: The Seven Liberal Arts , David Thomson, Giles E. M. Gasper, and Luigi Campi
Middle English Edition and Modern English Translation of the Seven Liberal Arts, Translated by Margaret Healy-Varley and David Thomson
18. The Seven Liberal Arts: Commentary and Analysis, David Thomson and Brian K. Tanner
Concluding Reflections, Giles E. M. Gasper, Tom C. B. McLeish, Cecilia Panti, and Hannah E. Smithson
Bibliography
Indices