The Light of thy Countenance: Science and Knowledge of God in the Thirteenth Century (2 vols)
Biographical note
Steven P. Marrone, Ph.D. (1978) in History, Harvard University, is Professor of History at Tufts University. Publications include William of Auvergne and Robert Grosseteste (Princeton, 1983) and Truth and Scientific Knowledge in the Thought of Henry of Ghent (Medieval Academy of America, 1985).
Readership
All those interested in intellectual history and history of science and of medieval philosophy; also history of Christian thought, of medieval universities, and education and mind in pre-modern Europe.
Reviews
'...a significant intellectual achievement...Marronehas produced a work that scholars must read.’
Douglas Langston, Speculum, 2002.
Douglas Langston, Speculum, 2002.
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A new interpretation of the Jesuit mission to New France is here proposed by using, for comparison and contrast, the earlier Jesuit experience in Japan. In order to present revisionist perspectives of the Jesuit missions based on a broader international framework beyond North America, the ...
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