Robert Grosseteste: On the Six Days of Creation A Translation of the Hexaëmeron

BL The translation complements the highly acclaimed Latin text edition ofthe Hexaemeron by Dales and Gieben.Grosseteste is a crucially important figure in the history of English learning,representing the last flowering of a fully native tradition of scholarship. HisHexaemeron is rare amongst works of this period in giving such a wide and deepinsight into the medieval world view.A work of Grosseteste's early maturity (probably completed around 1235) it is acommentary on the early chapters of Genesis, on the six days of Creation, andgives him a context for expounding his attitude to theology, to the world, andto the place of human beings in that world.It is a masterly compilation and reconciliation of conflicting Greek and Latinauthorities, handled with great confidence, which gives a supremely rich accountof the unity of medieval learning, where the study of God includes the study ofthe whole world.