Roger Bacon and the Defence of Christendom

Informationen zum Autor Amanda Power is a lecturer in medieval history at the University of Sheffield. Klappentext A revisionist study of Roger Bacon, examining his writings in the context of his commitment to the medieval Church. Zusammenfassung This first study of Roger Bacon in English for sixty years sets his thought within the religious and intellectual context of the Franciscan order. Amanda Power's provocative new reading argues that his most famous works were intended to defend! renew and promulgate the faith within Christendom and beyond. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. A life in context; 2. Traces on parchment; 3. From the world to God; 4. In defence of Christendom; 5. Beyond Christendom.

Product details

• Authors: Amanda Power, Amanda (Dr Power, Power Amanda
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.10.2012
• EAN: 9780521885225
• ISBN: 978-0-521-88522-5
• No. of pages: 312
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Medieval
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day