SOURCE: Evans, G. R. “The ‘Conclusiones’ of Robert Grosseteste's Commentary on the Posterior Analytics.” Studi Medievali 24, no. 2 (December 1983): 729-34.

In the following essay, Evans remarks on the clarity of the demonstrative style used by Grosseteste in his commentary on Aristotle's Posterior Analytics, noting that Grosseteste points out the conclusiones, or principles of demonstrative science, as they emerge from the philosopher's work.

In the middle of the twelfth century Thierry of Chartres made a collection of all the textbooks of the seven liberal arts of which he was able to obtain copies. He was able to include all the works of Aristotle's Organon except the Posterior Analytics¹. A decade later John of Salisbury wrote an abrasive account of the work of the schools as he had known them twenty years earlier when he was a student at Paris, with, no doubt, additional matter which he had heard about since...