Saint Anselm : a portrait in a landscape / R.W. Southern
2004, 6th Edition. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press. Fine paperback copy. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #403500
ISBN: 0521438187
Physical description; xxix, 493 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; Escape from confinement -- The year of decision -- Anselm and Lanfranc -- The years of silence -- Anselm's new start -- The great 'meditations' -- The nature and importance of friendship -- An unwelcome but enlarging world -- Anselm and the human condition -- 'Release my soul from this slavery' -- A new archbishop's problems of obedience -- The liberty of the church -- The liberty of a monastic community -- An old liberty : the primacy of Canterbury -- Anselm's earliest theological disciples -- The collectors of Anselm's words and letters -- Eadmer and Anselm -- A backward glance. Subjects; Anselm Saint, Archbishop of Canterbury 1033-1109. Benedictines. Benedictines Rules. Church of England Bishops ; Biography. Christian saints England ; Biography. Monastic and religious life History Middle Ages, 600-1500. Great Britain Church history 1066-1485.
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