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Saint Anselm of Canterbury and His Legacy

by Giles E. M. Gasper, Ian Logan

Anselm, saint, archbishop of canterbury, 1033-1109Theology, middle ages, 600-1500TheologyCongressesHistoryHistoireInfluenceThéologie

The essays consider the following: Anselm's legacy in his own lifetime and amongst the communities in which his living memory was preserved longest; the impact of his thought in the twelfth century; the rather different inspiration his thought provided in the thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries; Anselmian texts and their influence in vernacular translation, notably Middle English; and twentieth-century reception within Roman Catholic, continental Protestant, and Anglican history and theology, as well as the continued place of Anselmian argument within philosophical circles.

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