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Author_Andrew Cunningham
Author_Roger French
Autonomous Principle
Byzantium
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Cathar Beliefs
Cathar Heresy
Cathar Text
Creation Of The World
Dominican intellectual history
Ecstatic Contemplation
egyptian
Egyptian Gold
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Evil Principle
Fourth Lateran Council
Franciscan scientific tradition
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Good Life
Honorius III
Innocent III
Liberal Arts
masters
medieval friars scientific inquiry
medieval natural philosophy
Medieval Science
monastic knowledge transmission
Natura Naturata
natural
Natural World
Opus Dei
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philosophy
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Propter Quid
sacred
Sacred Page
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Secular Masters
St Thomas Aquinas
St Victor
theology and science interaction
Thirteenth Century Europe
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9781859282878
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 25 Jul 1996
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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The opposition of science and religion is a recent phenomenon; in the middle ages, and indeed until the middle of the nineteenth century, there was almost no conflict. In the Middle Ages the objective study of nature - the activity we now call science - was largely the province of religious men. This book looks at the origins of western science and the central role played by the Dominican and Franciscan friars. It explains why these two groups devoted so much intellectual effort to the study of physical and biological phenomena, and distinguishes 'Natural Philosophy' from 'science' as presently understood. Though the friars were recognisably 'scientific' in their approach their motives were religious - they wished to understand the mind of God and the beauty of God's nature. Even so, as this study makes clear, the roots of western science lie in the monasteries and refuges of the medieval friars - the direct forebears of the anti-scientific Popes of the age of Copernicus and Galileo.
Roger French, Andrew Cunningham
