The Light of thy Countenance: Science and Knowledge of God in the Thirteenth Century

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The Light of thy Countenance: Science and Knowledge of God in the Thirteenth Century is written by Steven Marrone and published by BRILL. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 9004531440 (ISBN 10) and 9789004531444 (ISBN 13).

This book is about the development of scholastic argumentation in thirteenth-century Europe. It traces the rise of a formal model of science and resulting accommodations in traditional attitudes towards human cognition, especially with regard to the role of divine illumination. Investigated are ten theologians from Robert Grosseteste to Duns Scotus, all commonly associated with a so-called Augustinian current. The analysis focuses on theory of knowledge and of mind, relating both to the account of human understanding of divinity in the world. Of interest to historians of medieval culture and historians of science, the book lays bare the intellectual transformations ultimately setting the stage for the emergence of modern science. It furthermore advances a novel argument about the reality of "Augustinianism" and "Aristotelianism" in high-medieval thought. The print edition is available as a set of two volumes (9789004119475).