All Outputs (65)

Professor Sir Richard W. Southern (1912-2001) (2022)
Book Chapter
Gasper, G. E. (2022). Professor Sir Richard W. Southern (1912-2001). In S. Niskanen, & J. Willoughby (Eds.), Routledge Medieval Encyclopedia Online. Routledge

Sir Richard Southern is famous for his biographies of St Anselm of Canterbury and Robert Grosseteste, for his long meditation on medieval universities, humanism, and scholasticism, his early and still influential The Making of the Middle Ages, a surv... Read More about Professor Sir Richard W. Southern (1912-2001).

Damascien (Johannes Damascenus). (2022)
Book Chapter
Gasper, G. E. (2023). Damascien (Johannes Damascenus). In R. Newhauser, V. Gillespie, J. Rosenfeld, & K. Walter (Eds.), The Chaucer Encyclopedia. Wiley

Cultural Heritage 360: A Report for the AHRC Programme: Where Next? Scoping Future Arts and Humanities Led Research (2022)
Report
Taylor, S., Gasper, G., Uchacz, T., Smithson, H., McLeish, T., Kollandsrud, K., Horsfield, F., Donnelly, C., & Evans, I. (2022). Cultural Heritage 360: A Report for the AHRC Programme: Where Next? Scoping Future Arts and Humanities Led Research. Arts and Humanities Research Council

A Marvellous Sign and A Fiery Globe: A Medieval English Report of Ball Lightning (2022)
Journal Article
Gasper, G. E., & Tanner, B. K. (2022). A Marvellous Sign and A Fiery Globe: A Medieval English Report of Ball Lightning. Weather, 77(7), 232-234. https://doi.org/10.1002/wea.4144

We describe an entry in a twelfth century monastic chronicle, compiled and composed by Gervase of Canterbury (c. 1145–c. 1210), which gives a credible description of ball lightning. It predates the earliest known report of the phenomenon from England... Read More about A Marvellous Sign and A Fiery Globe: A Medieval English Report of Ball Lightning.

On the Six Days of Creation: the Hexaemeral Tradition (2022)
Book Chapter
Gasper, G. E. (in press). On the Six Days of Creation: the Hexaemeral Tradition. In J. Goroncy (Ed.), T&T Clark Handbook of the Doctrine of Creation. Bloomsbury

Anselm of Canterbury: Communities, Contemporaries and Criticism (2021)
Book
Healy-Varley, M., Gasper, G. E., & Younge, G. (Eds.). (2021). Anselm of Canterbury: Communities, Contemporaries and Criticism. Brill Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004468238

Anselm of Canterbury’s De concordia (2021)
Book Chapter
Gasper, G. E. (2021). Anselm of Canterbury’s De concordia. In M. Healy-Varley, G. E. Gasper, & G. Younge (Eds.), Anselm of Canterbury: Communities, Contemporaries and Criticism (13-37). https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004468238_003

Introduction (2021)
Book Chapter
Healy-Varley, M., Gasper, G. E., & Younge, G. (2021). Introduction. In M. Healy-Varley, G. E. Gasper, & G. Younge (Eds.), Anselm of Canterbury: Communities, Contemporaries and Criticism (1-9). https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004468238_002

How to Teach the Franciscans: Robert Grosseteste and the Oxford Community of Franciscans c.1229–35 (2021)
Book Chapter
Gasper, G. E. (2021). How to Teach the Franciscans: Robert Grosseteste and the Oxford Community of Franciscans c.1229–35. In L. Schumacher (Ed.), Early Thirteenth-Century English Franciscan Thought (57-75). https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110684834-003

‘Travelling Optics: Robert Grosseteste and the Optics behind the Rainbow’ (2021)
Book Chapter
Gasper, G. E., Tanner, B. K., Sønnesyn, S. O., & El-Bizri, N. (2021). ‘Travelling Optics: Robert Grosseteste and the Optics behind the Rainbow’. In C. Etheridge, & M. Campopiano (Eds.), Medieval Science in the North: Travelling Wisdom, 1000-1500 (45-75). Brepols Publishers

Magnifying Grains of Sand, Seeds, and Blades of Grass: Optical Effects in Robert Grosseteste’s De iride (On the Rainbow) (circa 1228–1230) (2021)
Journal Article
White, R. C., Gasper, G. E., McLeish, T. C., Tanner, B. K., Harvey, J. S., Sønnesyn, S. O., Young, L. K., & Smithson, H. E. (2021). Magnifying Grains of Sand, Seeds, and Blades of Grass: Optical Effects in Robert Grosseteste’s De iride (On the Rainbow) (circa 1228–1230). Isis: A Journal of the History of Science Society, 112(1), 93-107. https://doi.org/10.1086/713724

In his treatise On the Rainbow (De iride), composed nearly four hundred years before the first known telescope, the English polymath Robert Grosseteste identified three striking optical effects: distant objects can be rendered close by; close-by larg... Read More about Magnifying Grains of Sand, Seeds, and Blades of Grass: Optical Effects in Robert Grosseteste’s De iride (On the Rainbow) (circa 1228–1230).

‘The Moon Quivered Like a Snake’: A Medieval Chronicler, Lunar Explosions, and a Puzzle for Modern Interpretation (2020)
Journal Article
Gasper, G. E., & Tanner, B. K. (2020). ‘The Moon Quivered Like a Snake’: A Medieval Chronicler, Lunar Explosions, and a Puzzle for Modern Interpretation. Endeavour, 44(4), Article 100750. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.endeavour.2021.100750

Despite some scepticism, the suggestion by Hartung in 1976 that the report in the chronicle of Gervase of Canterbury corresponded to a meteorite impact with the moon in 1178, creating the Giordano Bruno crater, retains considerable support, particula... Read More about ‘The Moon Quivered Like a Snake’: A Medieval Chronicler, Lunar Explosions, and a Puzzle for Modern Interpretation.

Creation, Light, and Redemption: Hexaemeral Thinking, Robert Grosseteste, and the Summa Halensis (2020)
Book Chapter
Gasper, G. E. (2020). Creation, Light, and Redemption: Hexaemeral Thinking, Robert Grosseteste, and the Summa Halensis. In L. Schumacher (Ed.), The Summa Halensis: Sources and Context (295-316). De Gruyter

Rejecting the Market-Place: Using the Past to Inspire Access to University Education (2019)
Book Chapter
Claus, P., & Gasper, G. E. (2019). Rejecting the Market-Place: Using the Past to Inspire Access to University Education. In J. P. Cunningham, & S. Puttick (Eds.), Robert Grosseteste and Theories of Education. Routledge

'Gentleness and Discretion’: Medieval Perspectives on Childhood Learning and Guiding Adult Education. (2019)
Book Chapter
Gasper, G. E., & Gasper, M. E. (2019). 'Gentleness and Discretion’: Medieval Perspectives on Childhood Learning and Guiding Adult Education. In J. P. Cunningham, & S. Puttick (Eds.), Robert Grosseteste and Theories of Education. Routledge

Knowing and Speaking: Robert Grosseteste's De artibus liberalibus 'On the Liberal Arts' and De generatione sonorum 'On the Generation of Sounds' (2019)
Book
Gasper, G. E., Panti, C., Smithson, H. E., McLeish, T. C., Lewis, N., Sonnesyn, S., & Thomson, D. (2019). Knowing and Speaking: Robert Grosseteste's De artibus liberalibus 'On the Liberal Arts' and De generatione sonorum 'On the Generation of Sounds'. Oxford University Press

Bernard of Clairvaux, Material and Spiritual Order, and the Economy of Salvation (2019)
Journal Article
Gasper, G. E. (2019). Bernard of Clairvaux, Material and Spiritual Order, and the Economy of Salvation. Journal of Medieval History, 45(5), 580-596. https://doi.org/10.1080/03044181.2019.1658617

This article explores themes connected to the spiritual and the material, especially in connection with order and economy, in the thought of the Cistercian abbot Bernard of Clairvaux (1090/1–1153). It argues that these themes are particularly useful... Read More about Bernard of Clairvaux, Material and Spiritual Order, and the Economy of Salvation.

A thirteenth-century theory of speech (2019)
Journal Article
Harvey, J., Smithson, H., Siviour, C., Gasper, G., Sønnesyn, S., McLeish, T., & Howard, D. (2019). A thirteenth-century theory of speech. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 146(2), 937-947. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.5119126

Anselm of Canterbury: Theology of Salvation (2017)
Book Chapter
Gasper, G. E. (2017). Anselm of Canterbury: Theology of Salvation. In J. S. Holcomb (Ed.), Christian Theologies of Salvation: A Comparative Introduction (124-142). New York University Press

Theology at Le Bec (2017)
Book Chapter
Gasper, G. E. (2017). Theology at Le Bec. In B. Pohl, & L. L. Gathagan (Eds.), A companion to the Abbey of Le Bec in the central Middle Ages (11th-13th centuries) (206-227). Brill Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004351905_010