Anselm of Canterbury: Communities, Contemporaries and Criticism

Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-90-04-46809-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 3, 324 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 689 g

Reihe: Anselm Studies and Texts

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Healy-Varley, Margaret

Gasper, Giles

Younge, George

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder England, UK, Irland: Regional & Stadtgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie Geschichte der Theologie, Einzelne Theologen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.