Robert Grosseteste and the 13th-Century Diocese of Lincoln
Subtitle: An English Bishop's Pastoral Vision
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2019
Language: eng
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9789004342606
Subjects: Grosseteste, robert, 1175?-1253; Pastoral theology; Philosophy, medieval
Description: In this book Philippa Hoskin offers an account of the pastoral theory and practice of Robert Grosseteste, bishop of Lincoln 1235-1253, within his diocese. Grosseteste has been considered as an eminent medieval philosopher and theologian, and as a bishop focused on pastoral care, but there has been no attempt to consider how his scholarship influenced his pastoral practice. Making use of Grosseteste's own writings - philosophical and theological as well as pastoral and administrative - Hoskin demonstrates how Grosseteste's famous interventions in his diocese grew from his own theory of personal obligation in pastoral care as well as how his personal involvement in his diocese could threaten well-developed clerical and lay networks.