The electronic Grosseteste
The electronic Grosseteste is a web-site dedicated to providing electronic access to the Latin works of Robert Grosseteste (ca. 1170-1253). Materials relating to Grosseteste's life and the thirteenth century may also be found there. The British Academy provided the pump-priming funds in 1999-2000. Further funding was given by St Louis University in 2003/4.
The web-based project supports research into the life and works of Robert Grosseteste specifically, and in medieval studies generally. Since its inception in 1998, The Electronic Grosseteste has had three aims:
- to provide electronic resources for research in the writings of Grosseteste, as well as the intellectual and cultural history of the thirteenth century;
- to provide global access to texts that are currently out of print and in public domain; and
- to provide a searchable database of published texts (which are not part of any other searchable database) which can facilitate the creation of editorial apparatus, support text-based research in a number of disciplines, and even provide opportunities for linguistic analysis of medieval Latin texts. To date, the project has produced a searchable bibliography (updated to 2003), electronic versions of Grosseteste's writings in public domain, and the digitization of texts still under copyright. The last two components are also searchable (although the site's search engine is still under development).
With these components complete, the Project, beginning in 2005, has focused on an additional aim: the revision of S.H. Thomson's The Writings of Robert Grosseteste. This comprises a complete overhaul of the cataloguing system of Grosseteste's works, updates on the status of the works listed (e.g. if a text is now proven to be inauthentic), and a revision of the manuscript listings and publication details for each entry. The work will be completed by members of the International Grosseteste Society, under the general direction of the Project's Director, Dr Ginther.
Staff
- Project Director: James R. Ginther, Department of Theological Studies, St Louis University.
- Editorial Advisors
- Professor Joseph Goering, Centre for the Study of Religion, University of Toronto (Canada);
- Professor Neil Lewis, Department of Philosophy, Georgetown University (USA);
- Professor R. James Long, Department of Philosophy, Fairfield University (USA);
- Professor F.A.C Mantello, Department of Greek and Latin, Catholic University of America, Washington DC (USA);
- Professor James McEvoy, Department of Philosophy, National University of Ireland, Maynooth (ROI)
- Research Assistants (University of Leeds, 1999-2001): Melanie Brunner, Eva de Visscher, Jeffrey Dubberley, Jinha Kim and Suzanne Paul.
- Research Assistants (St Louis University, 2002-2004): Joshua C. Benson and Juliet Mousseau
- Research "Clerks" (St Louis University, 2003-2004): Charity Hunter, Kimberly Naguit
