Robert Grosseteste Quotes


Make your free men and guests sit as far as possible at tables on either side, not four here and three there.


Citations

Grosseteste, Robert. "The Rules of Saint Robert." Walter of Henley's Husbandry, translated by Elizabeth Lamond, Longmans, Green, and Co., 1890, pp. 121-145.

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Robert Grosseteste
Robert Grosseteste
  • Born:
  • Died: October 9, 1253
  • Nationality: English
  • Profession: Statesman

Robert Grosseteste 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. 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".