St. Anselm of Canterbury: References & Edit History

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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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
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