Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Maps
- Foreword
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Eleventh Century
- II.1 The Battle of Hastings and Its Aftermath
- II.2 Two Charters of William the Conqueror
- II.3 Goscelin of Canterbury, The Book of Consolation
- II.4 The Domesday Book of 1086
- II.5 The Life of St Swithun: the Miracle of the Broken Eggs
- II.6 The Life of St Birinus
- II.7 St Anselm of Canterbury
- Twelfth Century
- Thirteenth Century
- Fourteenth Century
- Fifteenth Century
- Select Bibliography for Volume II
- General Index
- Index of Passages Cited
II.7 - St Anselm of Canterbury
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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 January 2024
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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Maps
- Foreword
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Eleventh Century
- II.1 The Battle of Hastings and Its Aftermath
- II.2 Two Charters of William the Conqueror
- II.3 Goscelin of Canterbury, The Book of Consolation
- II.4 The Domesday Book of 1086
- II.5 The Life of St Swithun: the Miracle of the Broken Eggs
- II.6 The Life of St Birinus
- II.7 St Anselm of Canterbury
- Twelfth Century
- Thirteenth Century
- Fourteenth Century
- Fifteenth Century
- Select Bibliography for Volume II
- General Index
- Index of Passages Cited
Summary
Anselm, archbishop of Canterbury from 1093-1109, formerly of the abbey of Bec in Normandy, is here represented by an example of his more intimate writing, namely an exquisite short letter to his dear friend Gundulf, and by an excerpt from his great work, the Proslogion, an address to God in which Anselm meditates on the existence and nature of God and man’s relation to God in a Latin prose studded with Biblical references particularly from the Psalms.
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- The Cambridge Anthology of British Medieval Latin , pp. 83 - 92Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024