In this magisterial study of the life and work of St. Anselm, Sir Richard Southern provides the definitive study of one of the most complex and fascinating philosophical minds in Christian history. St. Anselm brings together all the elements of a man whose intensely concentrated search for God filled all the phases and aspects of his life and work. Nothing in Anselm's thinking was simply ordinary or typical of his age.
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"This is a magisterial work by a master of medieval history who has reflected many years on the life and work of Anselm; it is based on the solidest kind of scholarship and yet is eminently readable; the book will stand henceforth as the best and indispensable portrait of Anselm." Adris
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The qualities of a man whose life was devoted to an intensely concentrated search for God are defined in this authoritative study of one of the most complex and fascinating philosophical minds in Christian history.
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Saint Anselm (of Bec and Canterbury) and William the Conqueror (of Normandy and England) were near-contemporaries. Each radically redefined what it meant to be a European. This book explores that process. I found it startling to read, but very satisfying.
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Anselm was born in 1033 in the Alpine town of Aosta, an ancient Roman town, which then had many, and still has some, huge Roman buildings - amphitheatre, Praesidium, triumphal arch, walls and fortified gatehouses - gaunt witnesses to a great past among the scattered remains of early medieval settlement. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
archiepiscopal letters, clerical homage, primatial claim, equipollent propositions, primatial authority, general congruity, feudal imagery, forged additions, libertas ecclesiae, earliest prayers, monastic obedience, lay investiture, monastic routine, becoming archbishop Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Cur Deus Homo, Gilbert Crispin, William of Malmesbury, Historia Novorum, Middle Ages, Christ Church, British Isles, Vita Anselmi, Archbishop Ralph, Hugh of Lyons, Virgin Mary, Aristotle's Categories, Duke William, Gregory the Great, Bury St Edmunds, Benedictine Rule, English Church, Archbishop Hugh, Count Alan, Pope Nicholas, John of Salisbury, Persons of the Trinity, Thomas Becket, Anselm of Laon, Council of Bari New!
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Anselm was born in 1033 in the Alpine town of Aosta, an ancient Roman town, which then had many, and still has some, huge Roman buildings - amphitheatre, Praesidium, triumphal arch, walls and fortified gatehouses - gaunt witnesses to a great past among the scattered remains of early medieval settlement. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
archiepiscopal letters, clerical homage, primatial claim, equipollent propositions, primatial authority, general congruity, feudal imagery, forged additions, libertas ecclesiae, earliest prayers, monastic obedience, lay investiture, monastic routine, becoming archbishop Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Cur Deus Homo, Gilbert Crispin, William of Malmesbury, Historia Novorum, Middle Ages, Christ Church, British Isles, Vita Anselmi, Archbishop Ralph, Hugh of Lyons, Virgin Mary, Aristotle's Categories, Duke William, Gregory the Great, Bury St Edmunds, Benedictine Rule, English Church, Archbishop Hugh, Count Alan, Pope Nicholas, John of Salisbury, Persons of the Trinity, Thomas Becket, Anselm of Laon, Council of Bari New!
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- Lanfranc of Bec by Margaret Gibson in Front Matter, and page 16
- Honorius Augustodunensis (Authors of the Middle Ages) by Valerie I. J. Flint in Front Matter, and page 376
- William of Malmesbury by R.M. Thomson in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- The Chronicle of Battle Abbey (Oxford Medieval Texts) by Eleanor Searle in Front Matter, and page 373
- Councils and Synods With Other Documents Relating to the English Church (Volume 1 in 2 Parts) (Vol 1) by D. Whitelock in Front Matter
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- Ennobling Love: In Search of a Lost Sensibility (The Middle Ages Series) by C. Stephen Jaeger in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Worlds of Medieval Europe by Clifford R. Backman on page 261
- The Worlds of Medieval Europe by Clifford R. Backman on page 261
- Anselm Of Canterbury: The Beauty Of Theology (Great Theologians Series) by David S. Hogg in Back Matter
- God and the World: Classic Texts Ancient, Medieval, and Modern (Christian Texts in Perspective) by William Madges on page 316
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