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Introduction (2014)
Book Chapter
Gasper, G. E., & McKinnell, J. S. (2014). Introduction. In G. E. Gasper, & J. S. McKinnell (Eds.), Ambition and anxiety : courts and courtly discourse, c. 700-1600 (1-16). Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, [Durham, England]: Institute of Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Durham University

All the colours of the rainbow (2014)
Journal Article
Smithson, H. E., Gasper, G. E., & McLeish, T. C. (2014). All the colours of the rainbow. Nature Physics, 10(8), 540-542. https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys3052

Our perception of colour has always been a source of fascination, so it's little wonder that studies of the phenomenon date back hundreds of years. What, though, can modern scientists learn from medieval literature — and how do we go about it?

A medieval multiverse?: Mathematical modelling of the thirteenth century universe of Robert Grosseteste (2014)
Journal Article
Bower, R., McLeish, T., Tanner, B., Smithson, H., Panti, C., Lewis, N., & Gasper, G. (2014). A medieval multiverse?: Mathematical modelling of the thirteenth century universe of Robert Grosseteste. Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 470(2167), Article 40025. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.2014.0025

In his treatise on light, written about 1225, Robert Grosseteste describes a cosmological model in which the universe is created in a big-bang-like explosion and subsequent condensation. He postulates that the fundamental coupling of light and matter... Read More about A medieval multiverse?: Mathematical modelling of the thirteenth century universe of Robert Grosseteste.

Color-coordinate system from a 13th-century account of rainbows (2014)
Journal Article
Smithson, H., Anderson, P., Dinkova-Bruun, G., Gasper, G., Laven, P., McLeish, T., …Tanner, B. (2014). Color-coordinate system from a 13th-century account of rainbows. Journal of the Optical Society of America A, 31(4), A341-A349. https://doi.org/10.1364/josaa.31.00a341

We present a new analysis of Robert Grosseteste’s account of color in his treatise De iride (On the Rainbow), dating from the early 13th century. The work explores color within the 3D framework set out in Grosseteste’s De colore [see J. Opt. Soc. Am.... Read More about Color-coordinate system from a 13th-century account of rainbows.

The Beauty of Creation (2014)
Book Chapter
Gasper, G. E. (2014). The Beauty of Creation. In G. Cipollone, & M. Boari (Eds.), Anselmo e la ‘nuova’ Europa (41-56). Gregorian and Biblical Press

Anselm: A Portrait in Refraction (2012)
Book Chapter
Gasper, G. E., & Logan, I. (2012). Anselm: A Portrait in Refraction. In Saint Anselm of Canterbury and His Legacy (1-25)

Money and its use in the thought and experience of Anselm, archbishop of Canterbury (1093–1109) (2012)
Journal Article
Gasper, G., & Gullbekk, S. (2012). Money and its use in the thought and experience of Anselm, archbishop of Canterbury (1093–1109). Journal of Medieval History, 38(2), 155-182. https://doi.org/10.1080/03044181.2012.676435

This article explores aspects of a broader question: what money meant to the inhabitants of north-western Europe in the late eleventh and early twelfth century, evidence for its use, and how it was conceptualised and discussed. The existence of money... Read More about Money and its use in the thought and experience of Anselm, archbishop of Canterbury (1093–1109).

A three-dimensional color space from the 13th century (2012)
Journal Article
Smithson, H. E., Dinkova-Bruun, G., Gasper, G. E., Huxtable, M., McLeish, T. C., & Panti, C. (2012). A three-dimensional color space from the 13th century. Journal of the Optical Society of America A, 29(2), A346-A352. https://doi.org/10.1364/josaa.29.00a346

We present a new commentary on Robert Grosseteste’s De colore, a short treatise that dates from the early 13th century, in which Grosseteste constructs a linguistic combinatorial account of color. In contrast to other commentaries (e.g., Kuehni & Sch... Read More about A three-dimensional color space from the 13th century.

Envy, Jealousy and the Boundaries of Orthodoxy: Anselm, Eadmer and the Genesis of the Proslogion (2010)
Journal Article
Gasper, G. E. (2010). Envy, Jealousy and the Boundaries of Orthodoxy: Anselm, Eadmer and the Genesis of the Proslogion. Viator, 41(2), 45-68. https://doi.org/10.1484/j.viator.1.100791

Anselm of Canterbury’s Proslogion is one of the most celebrated of medieval treatises. This discussion seeks to examine more closely the circumstances in which the Proslogion was conceived and took shape. In particular it analyses the account of the... Read More about Envy, Jealousy and the Boundaries of Orthodoxy: Anselm, Eadmer and the Genesis of the Proslogion.