SOURCE: Southern, Richard William. “The Grosseteste Problem.” In Robert Grosseteste: The Growth of an English Mind in Medieval Europe, pp. 3-25. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986.
In the following essay, Southern examines contrasting interpretations of Grosseteste's ideas, demonstrating how commentators perceive Grosseteste as both a moderate figure representative of papal reform and an eccentric extremist.
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