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Abby gasper robotek2/9/2023 In Anselm of Canterbury: Communities, Contemporaries and Criticism. Healy-Varley, Margaret, Gasper, Giles E.Niskanen, Samu & Willoughby, James Routledge. In Routledge Medieval Encyclopedia Online. In T&T Clark Handbook of the Doctrine of Creation. On the Six Days of Creation: the Hexaemeral Tradition. Newhauser, Richard, Gillespie, Vincent, Rosenfeld, Jessica & Walter, Katie Wiley-Blackwell. Anselm of Canterbury and his Theological Inheritance. The Dimensions of Colour: Robert Grosseteste's De colore Edition, Translation and Interdisciplinary analysis. Dinkova-Bruun, Greti, Gasper, Giles E.M., Huxtable, Michael, McLeish, Tom C.B., Panti, Cecilia & Smithson, Hannah (2013).Knowing and Speaking: Robert Grosseteste's De artibus liberalibus 'On the Liberal Arts' and De generatione sonorum 'On the Generation of Sounds'. Panti, Cecilia Smithson, Hannah E, McLeish, Tom C.B. Giles has sponsored a number of Visiting Fellows to Durham:Ģ017 Department of History: Professor Nader El-Bizri, American University of BeirutĢ017 Institute of Advanced Study Fellowship: Professor Hannah Smithson, Department of Experimental Psychology and Pembroke College, University of OxfordĢ015 Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Slater Fellowship: Professor Faith Wallis, Departments of History and Social Studies of Medicine, McGill Univesity, Montreal, CanadaĢ012 Institute of Advanaced Study, Senior Research Fellowship: Professor Greti Dinkova-Bruun, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto, Canada. Giles Gasper welcomes inquiries from postgraduates in any aspect of intellectual or cultural history of the 11th-13th centuries, especially the development of theology, monastic life, spiritual and material culture, and the history of science. Gasper has written extensively on Anselm of Canterbury, including St Anselm of Canterbury and His Legacy (2012) and his earlier Anselm of Canterbury and His Theological Inheritance (2004) and papers on various aspects of Anselm’s thought, career and posthumous reputation. Gullbekk, 2015) was produced from this project. Money and the Church in Medieval Europe, 1000-1200 (co-ed. Recent work in this area includes a study of twelfth century culinary recipes for the English Historical Review co-authored with Faith Wallis (McGill), and forthcoming edited volumes on Biblical Exegesis in the Middle Ages, and Spiritual and Material Economies in Northern Europe. Gasper was an international partner in a major inter-disciplinary research project, funded by the Norwegian Research Council, running from the Cultural Historical Museum, University of Oslo, on 'Economies of Salvation in the Middle Ages', 2013-2016 working particularly with numismatists, liturgists and archaeologists. This has focal points on medieval monastic thought, the theology of Creation and hexaemeronic commentary, Salvation theology and medieval food culture. A second strand of research focuses on notions of ‘economy’ and order in the High Middle Ages. Gasper, together with Smithson and McLeish, was awarded a Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Research Engagement at the University of Oxford (2016). Gasper is a regular participant in the UK National Festival of Humanities, represented the Arts and Humanities Research Council at the Cheltenham Science Festival in 2015 (with Hannah Smithson and Tom McLeish), and featured on BBC Radios 4’s In Our Time. Carr and Gasper directed a Leverhulme Trust funded Artist in Residence placement Sculpting with Light, with principal activities in Durham in 2017. The Ordered Universe has active collaborations with a variety of creative artists, namely Cate Watkinson, Colin Rennie and other glass artists at the UK National Glass Centre, University of Sunderland, Sculptor Alexandra Carr, Filmmaker Alan Fentiman and Projection Artists Ross Ashton and Karen Monid. Subsequent volumes will be published by Oxford University Press in a seven volume series The Scientific Works of Robert Grosseteste. The Dimensions of Colour: Robert Grosseteste's De colore (2013) emerged from the pilot project for Ordered Universe. He also has interests in Patristic and early medieval thought, and in the history of science. He is principal investigator on the inter-disciplinary Ordered Universe project to edit, translate and contextualise the scientific works of Robert Grosseteste (c.1170-1253), working with an international team of scientists, educationalists and medievalists. He specializes in the intellectual history of the high middle ages (11th-13th centuries), particularly in the development of theology. Giles Gasper is Professor in High Medieval History at Durham University.
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