Roger Bacon and the Defence of Christendom

The English Franciscan, Roger Bacon (ca.1214-92), holds a controversial but important position in the development of modern science. He has been portrayed as an isolated figure, at odds with his influential order and ultimately condemned by it. This major study, the first in English for nearly sixty years, offers a provocative new interpretation of both Bacon and his environment. Amanda Power argues that his famous writings for the papal curia were the product of his critical engagement with the objectives of the Franciscan order and the reform agenda of the thirteenth-century church. Fearing that the apocalypse was at hand and Christians unprepared, Bacon explored radical methods for defending, renewing and promulgating the faith within Christendom and beyond. Read in this light, his work indicates the breadth of imagination possible in a time of expanding geographical and intellectual horizons.

Author: Amanda Power
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 11/19/2012
Pages: 312
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.20w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780521885225

About the Author
Power, Amanda: - Amanda Power is a lecturer in medieval history at the University of Sheffield.