St. Anselm of Canterbury: References & Edit History
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Additional Reading
Major bibliographies are Ulysse Chevalier, Répertoire des sources historiques du moyen âge, vol. 1, pp. 256–259 (1905); for periodical literature in English, French, German, and Italian, Fernand van Steenberghen, Philosophie des Mittelalters (1950); and George Watson (ed.), The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature, vol. 1, pp. 752–754 (1974).
Anselm’s life and thought are treated in Martin Rule, Life and Times of St. Anselm, 2 vol. (1883), and Rule’s edition of Eadmer’s Vita Anselmi, “Rolls Series” (1884); Richard William Church, St. Anselm (1870, many reprints); Joseph Clayton, St. Anselm: A Critical Biography (1933); John McIntyre, St. Anselm and His Critics: A Re-interpretation of the Cur Deus Homo (1954); W.R.W. Stephens, “Saint Anselm,” in Dictionary of National Biography, vol. 1, pp. 482–503 (1908); Etienne Gilson, History of Christian Philosophy in the Middle Ages (1955); Frederick Copleston, History of Philosophy, vol. 2 (1950); Fulbert Cayré, Manual of Patrology and History of Theology (1940); Zachary Nugent Brooke, The English Church and the Papacy (1931, reprinted 1968); Eugene Rathbone Fairweather (ed. and trans.), A Scholastic Miscellany: Anselm to Ockham (1956); and Richard William Southern, St. Anselm and His Biographer (1963).
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Article History
| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anniversary information added. | Apr 17, 2026 | ||
| Top questions added. | Apr 07, 2026 | ||
| Modified link of Web site: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - Anselm of Canterbury. | Nov 21, 2025 | ||
| First paragraph modernization. | Feb 14, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: EWTN - St. Anselm of Canterbury, Archbishop, Doctor of the Church. | Apr 17, 2022 | ||
| Add new Web site: Catholic Online - St. Anselm. | Apr 17, 2022 | ||
| Expanded the discussion of his satisfaction theory of redemption. | Sep 20, 2021 | ||
| Add new Web site: Saint Anselm College - Who was Saint Anselm? | Feb 14, 2019 | ||
| Add new Web site: Society of Archbishop Justus - Biography of Anselm of Canterbury. | Jan 02, 2017 | ||
| Add new Web site: Catholic Online - Biography of St. Anselm. | Jan 02, 2017 | ||
| Add new Web site: The Basics of Philosophy - Biography of St. Anselm of Canterbury. | Jan 02, 2017 | ||
| Add new Web site: Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy - Biography of Anselm. | Jun 09, 2014 | ||
| Add new Web site: Christian Classics Ethereal Library - Biography of Saint Anselm. | Jun 09, 2014 | ||
| Add new Web site: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - Anselm of Canterbury. | Jun 09, 2014 | ||
| Add new Web site: The European Graduate School - Biography of Anselm of Canterbury. | Jun 09, 2014 | ||
| Added mention of the fact that some scholars believe that Anselm was canonized in 1494. | Aug 06, 2012 | ||
| Added mention of the use of the ontological argument by Descartes and Spinoza and its rejection by Kant. | Jan 20, 2012 | ||
| Added new Web site: Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy - Biography of Anselm of Canterbury. | Jun 14, 2006 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Jul 20, 1998 |