Bishop Grosseteste and Lincoln Cathedral: Tracing Relationships between Medieval Concepts of Order and Built Form
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London Metropolitan University
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 21.32
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- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- Routledge
- ISBN
- 9781138548336
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- Year of publication
- 2014
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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4 - The Centre for Urban and Built Ecologies (CUBE)
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- Additional information
- In my role as joint editor, I reviewed the submitted papers, helped select the chapters, edited some of the papers and played a significant role in the writing of the introduction along with authoring chapter 8.
The book aimed to be the authoritative work on the relationship that Bishop Robert Grosseteste (1235-53) had to the shaping of the Cathedral at Lincoln. One of the other editors, John Shannon Hendrix, had already published two books on Grosseteste, one of which argued for strong links between Grosseteste’s theories on geometry and light and
the form and architecture of the cathedral. Because of my published work on the foundation of Salisbury and its cathedral (also constructed in the thirteenth century) I was invited to present at the original symposium and then join the editorial team. As my paper suggests, I disagreed strongly with Hendrix’s claims regarding the influence of Grosseteste on the cathedral. The book, including the other chapters by contributors—who are all world authorities on Grosseteste in their particular field—sets out this, and other conflicting theories about Grosseteste’s influence on architecture and the intellectual culture of the age.
Because many critical aspects of Grosseteste’s life and actions were challenged and reported in different ways within the book, the introductory text outlined the critical parameters which were, more or less, universally agreed by the contributors. Thus, this section of the book can be seen to be a necessary addition to the research content of the
book as a whole—essential as a grounding for the differing interpretations within the book, but also as an indication of that which is agreed upon by all. The remaining value of the introduction relates to its explanation of the book sections and why this organisation is helpful to the dissemination of the research as a whole.
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