The Light of Thy Countenance: Science and Knowledge of God in the Thirteenth Century Volume One: A Doctrine of Divine Illumination (Studies in the History of Christian Thought)

Steven P. Marrone

ISBN 10: 9004120645 / ISBN 13: 9789004120648

Published by Brill Academic Pub, Leiden, 2001

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Leiden: Brill Academic Pub. VG/VG. 2001. . Hardcover w/DJ. This is volume one . Sm 4to., 250 pp. .

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Light of Thy Countenance: Science and Knowledge of God in the Thirteenth Century Volume One: A Doctrine of Divine Illumination (Studies in the History of Christian Thought)
• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub, Leiden
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004120645
• ISBN 13: 9789004120648
• Binding: Hardcover w/DJ
• Illustrator: Not Illustrated
• Condition: VG/VG
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
  • History-Middle Ages History

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Synopsis

This book traces the rise of a formal model of science in thirteenth-century Europe and resultant changes in assumptions about Knowledge of God in the world, investigating scholastic antecedents to modern science and reconceptualizing medieval schools of thought.

About the Author

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).