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Anselm of Canterbury: Communities, Contemporaries and Criticism
Series: - Anselm Studies and Texts, Volume: 3
This volume explores the work of Anselm of Canterbury, theologian and archbishop, in light of the communities in which he participated. Featuring thirteen essays from leading historians, theologians, and literary scholars, the collection ranges from Anselm’s immediate contemporaries to the reception of his work, and formation of his posthumous reputation, by later medieval readers.
Individual essays consider the role of friendships in his career, his relations with students, correspondence with women, interventions in the political sphere, and influence as leader of the monastic communities at Bec and Canterbury. Together, these essays present a new profile of the archbishop, revealing an individual whose work emerged from a vibrant culture of debate, criticism, and collaboration.
Contributors are: Giles E. M. Gasper, Bernard van Vreeswijk, David Whidden, Hiroko Yamazaki, Bernd Goebel, Thomas Barrows, Hollie Devanney, Stephanie Britton, Sally Vaughn, George Younge, Christian Brouwer, Daniel Coman, Margaret Healy-Varley, and Severin Kitanov.
Individual essays consider the role of friendships in his career, his relations with students, correspondence with women, interventions in the political sphere, and influence as leader of the monastic communities at Bec and Canterbury. Together, these essays present a new profile of the archbishop, revealing an individual whose work emerged from a vibrant culture of debate, criticism, and collaboration.
Contributors are: Giles E. M. Gasper, Bernard van Vreeswijk, David Whidden, Hiroko Yamazaki, Bernd Goebel, Thomas Barrows, Hollie Devanney, Stephanie Britton, Sally Vaughn, George Younge, Christian Brouwer, Daniel Coman, Margaret Healy-Varley, and Severin Kitanov.
Margaret Healy-Varley, Ph.D. (2011), Harvard University, is Associate Professor of English at Providence College, Providence, Rhode Island. She publishes on the reception of Latin texts in English vernacular literature, particularly the influence of Anselm in English intellectual culture until the Reformation.
Giles E. M. Gasper, Ph.D. (2001), University of Oxford, is Professor of High Medieval History at Durham University. He has published widely on medieval cultural and intellectual history, including co-editing the first of six volumes on the scientific works of Robert Grosseteste.
George Younge, Ph.D. (2012), University of Cambridge, is Lecturer in Medieval Literature at the University of York. His published work focuses on literary transformations in Britain during the High Middle Ages (1000-1300), including the shift from Old to Middle English and the rise of written French.
Giles E. M. Gasper, Ph.D. (2001), University of Oxford, is Professor of High Medieval History at Durham University. He has published widely on medieval cultural and intellectual history, including co-editing the first of six volumes on the scientific works of Robert Grosseteste.
George Younge, Ph.D. (2012), University of Cambridge, is Lecturer in Medieval Literature at the University of York. His published work focuses on literary transformations in Britain during the High Middle Ages (1000-1300), including the shift from Old to Middle English and the rise of written French.
Preface and Acknowledgements
Notes on Editions and Translations of Anselm’s Works and Other Abbreviations
List of Contributors
Introduction
Margaret Healy-Varley, Giles E. M. Gasper and George Younge
1 Anselm of Canterbury’s De concordia Context, Structures, and Community
Giles E. M. Gasper
2 Anselm of Canterbury and Gilbert Crispin about Justice and Redemption Tracing Developments in Soteriological Thinking at the End of the Eleventh Century
Bernard J. D. van Vreeswijk
3 The Proslogion, Gilbert Crispin, and the Cur Deus homo Anselm and the Problems of the Incarnation
David L. Whidden
4 Anselm and Odo of Tournai on God and Evil
Hiroko Yamazaki
5 Anselmian Themes and Anti-Anselmian Stances in Ralph of Battle’s Philosophical Theology
Bernd Goebel
6 St Anselm and Gundulf of Rochester Brothers of Bec, One in Heart and Soul
Thomas R. Barrows
7 St Anselm and Friendship with Women Matilda of Tuscany
Hollie Devanney
8 Reading Eadmer of Canterbury in Light of Anselm
Stephanie C. Britton
9 Leading Everything Irregular in England Back to Due Order The Probable Theories behind Archbishop Anselm’s Political Endeavours
Sally N. Vaughn
10 Old English Literary Culture and the Circle of Saint Anselm
George Younge
11 How Did Robert Grosseteste and Thomas Aquinas Read Anselm’s Definition of Truth?
Christian Brouwer
12 Cistercians and the Assimilation of Anselm in the Late 14th Century A Case Study of the Quaestio in vesperiis fratriis Chunradi de Ebrako (†1399)
Daniel Coman
13 The Admonitio morienti and a Vernacular Anselm
Margaret Healy-Varley
14 Beatitudo est sufficiencia sine omni indigentia St Anselm’s Compositional Model of Beatitude and its Reception in Late Medieval Scholastic Theology
Severin V. Kitanov
Bibliography
Index
Notes on Editions and Translations of Anselm’s Works and Other Abbreviations
List of Contributors
Introduction
Margaret Healy-Varley, Giles E. M. Gasper and George Younge
prologue: Anselm in Community
1 Anselm of Canterbury’s De concordia Context, Structures, and Community
Giles E. M. Gasper
part 1: Reading Anselm’s Environment: Justice, Evil, and Love
2 Anselm of Canterbury and Gilbert Crispin about Justice and Redemption Tracing Developments in Soteriological Thinking at the End of the Eleventh Century
Bernard J. D. van Vreeswijk
3 The Proslogion, Gilbert Crispin, and the Cur Deus homo Anselm and the Problems of the Incarnation
David L. Whidden
4 Anselm and Odo of Tournai on God and Evil
Hiroko Yamazaki
5 Anselmian Themes and Anti-Anselmian Stances in Ralph of Battle’s Philosophical Theology
Bernd Goebel
Part 2: Reading Anselm’s Environment: Politics, Canterbury and Literature
6 St Anselm and Gundulf of Rochester Brothers of Bec, One in Heart and Soul
Thomas R. Barrows
7 St Anselm and Friendship with Women Matilda of Tuscany
Hollie Devanney
8 Reading Eadmer of Canterbury in Light of Anselm
Stephanie C. Britton
9 Leading Everything Irregular in England Back to Due Order The Probable Theories behind Archbishop Anselm’s Political Endeavours
Sally N. Vaughn
10 Old English Literary Culture and the Circle of Saint Anselm
George Younge
Part 3: Reading Anselm in the Later Middle Ages
11 How Did Robert Grosseteste and Thomas Aquinas Read Anselm’s Definition of Truth?
Christian Brouwer
12 Cistercians and the Assimilation of Anselm in the Late 14th Century A Case Study of the Quaestio in vesperiis fratriis Chunradi de Ebrako (†1399)
Daniel Coman
13 The Admonitio morienti and a Vernacular Anselm
Margaret Healy-Varley
14 Beatitudo est sufficiencia sine omni indigentia St Anselm’s Compositional Model of Beatitude and its Reception in Late Medieval Scholastic Theology
Severin V. Kitanov
Bibliography
Index
All interested in medieval theology, intellectual communities, and episcopal and monastic history, as well as anyone concerned with the reception of medieval writing.