Editing Robert Grosseteste (section)

==Literary and poetic works==
Grosseteste wrote a number of early works in Latin and French whilst he was a clerk, including one called ''Chateau d'amour'', an allegorical poem on the creation of the world and Christian redemption, as well as several other poems and texts on household management and courtly etiquette. He also wrote a number of theological works including the influential ''[[Hexaëmeron]]'' in the 1230s.  He was also a highly regarded author of manuals on pastoral care and produced treatises that dealt with a variety of penitential contexts, including monasteries, the parish and a bishop's household.

In 1242, having been introduced to the Greek work by [[John of Basingstoke]], Grosseteste had the ''[[Testament of the Twelve Patriarchs]]'' brought from Greece and translated it with help of a clerk of St Albans:
{{blockquote|for the strengthening of the christian {{sic}} faith and the confusion of the Jews [who were said to have deliberately hidden the book away] ... on account of the manifest prophecies of Christ contained therein.{{sfn|Archer|1885}} }}

He also wrote a number of commentaries on [[Aristotle]], including the first in the West of ''[[Posterior Analytics]]'', and one on Aristotle's ''[[Physics (Aristotle)|Physics]]'', which has survived as a loose collection of notes or glosses on the text. Moreover, he did a lot of very interesting work on [[Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite]]'s Celestial Hierarchy: he translated both the text and the scholia from Greek into Latin and wrote a commentary.<ref>See the edition by D. A. Lawell, Versio Caelestis Hierarchiae Pseudo-Dionysii Areopagitae cum scholiis ex Graeco sumptis necnon commentariis notulisque eiusdem Lincolniensis (= Corpus Christianorum. Continuatio Mediaevalis 268), Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2015 ({{ISBN|978-2-503-55593-5}}).</ref>