Authority Cited: Grosthead, Bishop
Author name and dates: Robert Grosseteste (Grossetete) (1175?-1253)
BKG Bio-tweet: Cleric; theologian; scholar; contests with Pope, Henry III; early intellectual/scientific thought; French poem; exiled Jews
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: one Grosthead cite in 1755 Dict. vol. 2. No works written in English by Grosseteste were identified. The title below is the 1864 publication of early English manuscript translations of Grosseteste's French poem, written before 1250. The manuscripts are dated to the 14th century and Weymouth dates the English poem to the early 14th century. Later scholarship has identified four related poems, but the version in the title below has the only phrasing close to Johnson's meaning (likely from memory of a Bodleian or British Library manuscript). No preamble was identified in the French version of the poem, Château d'Amour. See The Middle English translations of Robert Grosseteste's 'Chateau d'Amour,' Sajavaara, Kari, 1967; Helsinki, Uusfilologinen yhdistys]
Here begins a treatise/ That is called Castel of love,/ That bishop Grosseteste made just/ For laymen's behalf.]
Author name and dates: Robert Grosseteste (Grossetete) (1175?-1253)
BKG Bio-tweet: Cleric; theologian; scholar; contests with Pope, Henry III; early intellectual/scientific thought; French poem; exiled Jews
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: one Grosthead cite in 1755 Dict. vol. 2. No works written in English by Grosseteste were identified. The title below is the 1864 publication of early English manuscript translations of Grosseteste's French poem, written before 1250. The manuscripts are dated to the 14th century and Weymouth dates the English poem to the early 14th century. Later scholarship has identified four related poems, but the version in the title below has the only phrasing close to Johnson's meaning (likely from memory of a Bodleian or British Library manuscript). No preamble was identified in the French version of the poem, Château d'Amour. See The Middle English translations of Robert Grosseteste's 'Chateau d'Amour,' Sajavaara, Kari, 1967; Helsinki, Uusfilologinen yhdistys]
- Castel off loue (Chasteau d'amour; or, Carmen de cratione mundi) an early English translation of an Old French poem. Copied and ed. from mss. in the British museum and in the Bodleian library, Oxford, with notes, critical and exegetical, and glossary, by Richard Francis Weymouth, member of the Philological Society 1864, London: Asher & Company, Publishers to the Philological Society, 13 Bedford Street, Covent Garden; Berlin, Unter den Linden, 20.
- Grosthead [Grosseteste] (no work cited); lewd (1755 Dict.: For lewyd (lay) men this book I writ. Bishop Grosthead.)
Here begins a treatise/ That is called Castel of love,/ That bishop Grosseteste made just/ For laymen's behalf.]
