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This work 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.

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'.. .a significant intellectual achievement...Marronehas produced a work that scholars must read.'Douglas Langston, Speculum, 2002.

'.. .a significant intellectual achievement...Marronehas produced a work that scholars must read.'<br>Douglas Langston, Speculum, 2002.

'...a significant intellectual achievement...Marronehas produced a work that scholars must read.’ Douglas Langston, Speculum, 2002.

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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).

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