Anselm of Canterbury: Communities, Contemporaries and Criticism

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.

• Preface and AcknowledgementsNotes on Editions and Translations of Anselm’s Works and Other AbbreviationsList of ContributorsIntroductionMargaret Healy-Varley, Giles E. M. Gasper and George Youngeprologue: Anselm in Community1 Anselm of Canterbury’s De concordia Context, Structures, and CommunityGiles E. M. Gasperpart 1: Reading Anselm’s Environment: Justice, Evil, and Love2 Anselm of Canterbury and Gilbert Crispin about Justice and Redemption Tracing Developments in Soteriological Thinking at the End of the Eleventh CenturyBernard J. D. van Vreeswijk3 The Proslogion, Gilbert Crispin, and the Cur Deus homo Anselm and the Problems of the IncarnationDavid L. Whidden4 Anselm and Odo of Tournai on God and EvilHiroko Yamazaki5 Anselmian Themes and Anti-Anselmian Stances in Ralph of Battle’s Philosophical TheologyBernd GoebelPart 2: Reading Anselm’s Environment: Politics, Canterbury and Literature6 St Anselm and Gundulf of Rochester Brothers of Bec, One in Heart and SoulThomas R. Barrows7 St Anselm and Friendship with Women Matilda of TuscanyHollie Devanney8 Reading Eadmer of Canterbury in Light of AnselmStephanie C. Britton9 Leading Everything Irregular in England Back to Due Order The Probable Theories behind Archbishop Anselm’s Political EndeavoursSally N. Vaughn10 Old English Literary Culture and the Circle of Saint AnselmGeorge YoungePart 3: Reading Anselm in the Later Middle Ages11 How Did Robert Grosseteste and Thomas Aquinas Read Anselm’s Definition of Truth?Christian Brouwer12 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 Coman13 The Admonitio morienti and a Vernacular AnselmMargaret Healy-Varley14 Beatitudo est sufficiencia sine omni indigentia St Anselm’s Compositional Model of Beatitude and its Reception in Late Medieval Scholastic TheologySeverin V. KitanovBibliographyIndex