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