Saint Anselm and his biographer : a study of monastic life and thought 1059-c.1130
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Saint Anselm and his biographer : a study of monastic life and thought 1059-c.1130
（The Birkbeck lectures, 1959）（Paperback re-issue）
Cambridge University Press, 2009, c1963
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"This digitally printed version 2009"--T.p. verso
Includes index
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This is a study of Anglo-Norman monastic life and thought between about 1060 and 1130 as seen through the lives and writings of two men: Anslem, Archbishop of Canterbury, the most penetrating intellect between Augustine and Aquinas and the more commonplace observant Eadmer, his biographer. Taken together, the writings of the two men embrace almost every side of contemporary monastic experience. Professor Southern surveys all these aspects as they affect the writings of Anselm and Eadmer. In the first part of this book, he studies Anselm's development as a writer and statesman. In the second part, attention is directed to the community at Canterbury, which provided the background for Anselm's life as archbishop and gave him, in Eadmer, his closest disciple and biographer. The work concludes with a study of Eadmer's writings, especially of his Life of Anselm and with an assessment of the importance of the two men as complementary examples of the Benedictine life of the period.
Table of Contents
- Part I: 1. Anselm's Early Years
- 2. The Monk of Bec
- 3. 'Cur Deus Homo'
- 4. Anselm as Archbishop
- 5. Anselm's Companions and Conversation
- Part II: 6. Eadmer
- 7. The Community at Canterbury
- 8. Eadmer's Devotional and Historical Works
- 9. Eadmer's 'Life of Anselm'
- 10. Anselm and Eadmer
- Appendices.
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