Saint Anselm : a portrait in a landscape
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Saint Anselm : a portrait in a landscape
Cambridge University Press, 1990
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
In this magisterial account of the life and work of St Anselm, now in paperback, Sir Richard Southern provides a study in depth of one of the most fascinating minds in Christian history.
Table of Contents
- Preface
- Part I. From Birth to Rebirth 1033-1070: 1. Escape from confinement
- 2. The year of decision
- 3. Anselm and Lanfranc
- 4. The years of silence
- Part II. The Radiant Years 1070-1093: 5. Anselm's new start
- 6. The great 'meditations'
- 7. The nature and importance of friendship
- 8. An unwelcome but enlarging world
- Part III. A Monastic Viewin a Developing World 1093-1109: 9. Anselm and the human condition
- 10. 'Release my soul from this slavery'
- 11. A new archbishop's problems of obedience
- 12. The liberty of the church
- 13. The liberty of a monastic community
- 14. An old liberty: the primacy of Canterbury
- Part IV. The Harvest of Friends and Disciples: 15. Anselm's earliest theological disciples
- 16. The collectors of Anselm's words and letters
- 17. Eadmer and Anselm
- 18. A backward glance
- Appendix
- Index.
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