The book The Last Abbot of Glastonbury, And Other Essays was written by author Gasquet, Francis Aidan, 1846-1929 Here you can read free online of The Last Abbot of Glastonbury, And Other Essays book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The Last Abbot of Glastonbury, And Other Essays a good or bad book?
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1 5. THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY 139 under his eyes or he received the counsels of its author: the spirit is the same, and the style, though less virulent and personal, is the same. Thus we are brought back to the school of the doctor mirabilis [Roger Bacon], to the school of that mysterious savant who had such astound- ing lights on all the sciences, but for whom no study possessed greater fascination than the correction of the biblical text. " ' In another work the same writer suggests from in- te...rnal evidence that the author of the Correctorium Vaticanum, which manifests the same critical spirit in every part as that of the illustrious Franciscan philo- sopher, Bacon, was in all probability a Frenchman. He, however, confesses that the slight indications are hardly sufficient to warrant any certain conclusion, particularly as Roger Bacon was a man of all countries. 2 Later on, however, owing to a discovery of a manuscript at Einsie- deln, made by the Dominican, Father Denifle, M. Berger was enabled to give the actual name of the great biblical critic named by Bacon in his works, who was almost certainly the author of the Correctorium Vaticanum.
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