Robert Grosseteste - Greek scholar

Steven Avery

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An interesting writer, but no known hits in his writings

Grosseteste, Robert - (1175-1253) -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Grosseteste


Robert Grosseteste[n 1] (/ˈɡroʊstɛst/ GROHS-test; Latin: Robertus Grosseteste; c. 1168 – 8 or 9 October 1253)[11] was an English statesman, scholastic philosopher, theologian, scientist and Bishop of Lincoln. He was born of humble parents in Suffolk (according to the early 14th century chronicler Nicholas Trevet), but the associations with the village of Stradbroke is a post-medieval tradition.[12] Upon his death, he was almost universally revered as a saint in England, but attempts to procure a formal canonisation failed. A. C. Crombie called him "the real founder of the tradition of scientific thought in medieval Oxford, and in some ways, of the modern English intellectual tradition".

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His theological writings reveal a continual interest in the natural world as a major resource for theological reflection and an ability to read Greek sources

The name is the Norman French form of Robert Greathead (Latin: Robertus Capito, Capitus, Megacephalus, or Grossum Caput) or the gallicized Robert Grosstête (/ˈɡroʊsteɪt/ GROHS-tayt; Latin: Robertus Grossetesta or Grossatesta).[8] Also known as Robert of Lincoln (Latin: Robertus Lincolniensis, Linconiensis, &c.) or Rupert of Lincoln (Latin: Rubertus Lincolniensis, &c.).[9][10]

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The Greek Books of Bishop Grosseteste (1979)
Meridel Holland
https://books.google.com/books?id=XnE8twAACAAJ

Monthly Review (1886)
The Bishop of Durham on the Ignatian Epistles
https://books.google.com/books?id=Sns-AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA477

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Chateau d'Amour (Chasteau) (1852)
Carmon de Creatione Mundi
https://books.google.com/books?id=ohObpgd6RBwC&pg=PA3

an Early English Translation of an Old French Poem

(the witnesses is not in the manuscripts)

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The Life of Robert Grosseteste: The Celebrated Bishop of Lincoln (1793)
Samuel Pegge
https://books.google.com/books?id=H5s_AAAAcAAJ

Lots about his Greek skills

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Robert Grosseteste, Scholar and Bishop: Essays in Commemoration of the Seventh Centenary of His Death, ed. (1955)
https://books.google.com/books?id=5wCIAQAACAAJ

Grantley mentions him a few times:

Dionisotti, A. C. “On the Greek Studies of Robert Grosseteste.” In The Uses of Greek and Latin.
Ed. A. C. Dionisotti, A. Grafton, J. Kraye. London: Warburg Institute, 1988: 19-39.
 
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