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 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



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