St. Anselm
A Portrait in a Landscape

In this magisterial account of the life and work of St Anselm, now in paperback, Sir Richard Southern provides a study in depth of one of the most fascinating minds in Christian history.

Richard W. Southern (Author)

9780521438186, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 28 August 1992

524 pages
22.8 x 15.1 x 3.4 cm, 0.833 kg

'… a masterwork of scholarship and stylistically seductive.' Anthony Burgess, The Observer

In this magisterial account of the life and work of St Anselm, now in paperback, Sir Richard Southern provides a study in depth of one of the most fascinating minds in Christian history.

Preface
Part I. From Birth to Rebirth 1033–1070: 1. Escape from confinement
2. The year of decision
3. Anselm and Lanfranc
4. The years of silence
Part II. The Radiant Years 1070–1093: 5. Anselm's new start
6. The great 'meditations'
7. The nature and importance of friendship
8. An unwelcome but enlarging world
Part III. A Monastic Viewin a Developing World 1093–1109: 9. Anselm and the human condition
10. 'Release my soul from this slavery'
11. A new archbishop's problems of obedience
12. The liberty of the church
13. The liberty of a monastic community
14. An old liberty: the primacy of Canterbury
Part IV. The Harvest of Friends and Disciples: 15. Anselm's earliest theological disciples
16. The collectors of Anselm's words and letters
17. Eadmer and Anselm
18. A backward glance
Appendix
Index.

Subject Areas: Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500 [HBLC], British & Irish history [HBJD1]