Medievalists.net » Anselm http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Sun, 06 Dec 2015 19:35:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 Anselm on Free Will http://www.medievalists.net/2015/09/10/anselm-on-free-will/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/09/10/anselm-on-free-will/#comments Thu, 10 Sep 2015 19:16:44 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=60973 New book explores medieval philosopher's contribution to current debate

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2015/09/10/anselm-on-free-will/feed/ 0 Unpleasant Affairs That Please Us: Admonition and Rebuke in the Letter Collections of the Archbishops of Canterbury, 11th and 12th Centuries http://www.medievalists.net/2014/03/23/unpleasant-affairs-please-us-admonition-rebuke-letter-collections-archbishops-canterbury-11th-12th-centuries/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/03/23/unpleasant-affairs-please-us-admonition-rebuke-letter-collections-archbishops-canterbury-11th-12th-centuries/#comments Sun, 23 Mar 2014 09:36:52 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=48483 From the Norman Conquest in 1066 up to the famous “murder in the cathedral”2 in 1170, six archbishops of Canterbury ruled over the English church...

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/03/23/unpleasant-affairs-please-us-admonition-rebuke-letter-collections-archbishops-canterbury-11th-12th-centuries/feed/ 0 They Hasten toward Perfection: Virginal & Chaste Monks in the High Middle Ages http://www.medievalists.net/2014/01/01/they-hasten-toward-perfection-virginal-chaste-monks-in-the-high-middle-ages/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/01/01/they-hasten-toward-perfection-virginal-chaste-monks-in-the-high-middle-ages/#comments Wed, 01 Jan 2014 22:50:02 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=46255 As perennial Christian ideals, virginity and chastity were frequent themes in medieval religious discourse. Male religious were frequently virgins and were expected to cultivate chastity; however, women not men were usually the focus of such discussions. But some monastic writers did draw on those models when considering their own spirituality, and it is worth knowing how they were understood and enlisted in those instances.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/01/01/they-hasten-toward-perfection-virginal-chaste-monks-in-the-high-middle-ages/feed/ 0 Saint Anselm of Canterbury and Charismatic Authority http://www.medievalists.net/2013/09/28/saint-anselm-of-canterbury-and-charismatic-authority/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/09/28/saint-anselm-of-canterbury-and-charismatic-authority/#comments Sat, 28 Sep 2013 23:04:08 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=43910 The early career of Archbishop Anselm of Canterbury (c. 1033-1109) provides an opportunity to explore the operation of charismatic authority in a monastic setting.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/09/28/saint-anselm-of-canterbury-and-charismatic-authority/feed/ 0 Abelard’s Legacy: Why Theology is not Faith Seeking Understanding http://www.medievalists.net/2013/03/17/abelards-legacy-why-theology-is-not-faith-seeking-understanding/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/03/17/abelards-legacy-why-theology-is-not-faith-seeking-understanding/#comments Sun, 17 Mar 2013 15:56:40 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=39910 In this paper I will challenge the common definition of the theological task as faith seeking understanding, where the faith of a tradition commandeers the critical enquiry of the theologian.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/03/17/abelards-legacy-why-theology-is-not-faith-seeking-understanding/feed/ 0 Reality and Truth in Thomas of York: Study and Text http://www.medievalists.net/2013/03/10/reality-and-truth-in-thomas-of-york-study-and-text/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/03/10/reality-and-truth-in-thomas-of-york-study-and-text/#comments Sun, 10 Mar 2013 06:36:03 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=39692 The investigation is conducted through a study of opposites into which being is divided. These opposites are principally the one and the many, potency and act, truth and falsity.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/03/10/reality-and-truth-in-thomas-of-york-study-and-text/feed/ 0 Why God Became Man: Saint Anselm, Cur Deus Homo, and a Religious Challenge in Anglo-Norman England http://www.medievalists.net/2011/09/22/why-god-became-man-saint-anselm-cur-deus-homo-and-a-religious-challenge-in-anglo-norman-england/ http://www.medievalists.net/2011/09/22/why-god-became-man-saint-anselm-cur-deus-homo-and-a-religious-challenge-in-anglo-norman-england/#comments Thu, 22 Sep 2011 16:14:08 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=25689 Anselm's great contributions to the history of ideas have been the province of philosophers and theologians, while historians have concentrated on his actions as monk, abbot, and Archbishop of Canterbury during the Gregorian Reform.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2011/09/22/why-god-became-man-saint-anselm-cur-deus-homo-and-a-religious-challenge-in-anglo-norman-england/feed/ 0 Nicholas of Cusa’s Intellectual Relationship to Anselm of Canterbury http://www.medievalists.net/2011/07/31/nicholas-of-cusas-intellectual-relationship-to-anselm-of-canterbury/ http://www.medievalists.net/2011/07/31/nicholas-of-cusas-intellectual-relationship-to-anselm-of-canterbury/#comments Sun, 31 Jul 2011 22:38:19 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=23551 Nicholas of Cusa’s Intellectual Relationship to Anselm of Canterbury Hopkins, Jasper The Catholic University of America Press, Washington, D.C. (2006) Abstract During this sexcentenary of the birth of Nicholas of Cusa, there is an almost ineluctable temptation to super-accentuate Cusa’s modernity—to recall approvingly, for example, that the Neokantian Ernst Cassirer not only designated Cusa “the […]

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2011/07/31/nicholas-of-cusas-intellectual-relationship-to-anselm-of-canterbury/feed/ 0 Music in the Time of Saint Anselm http://www.medievalists.net/2011/03/21/music-in-the-time-of-saint-anselm/ http://www.medievalists.net/2011/03/21/music-in-the-time-of-saint-anselm/#comments Mon, 21 Mar 2011 17:56:32 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=18852 Music in the Time of Saint Anselm Cox, Donald R. (Saint Anselm College) The Saint Anselm Journal 2.1 (Fall 2004) Abstract The 11th century gave birth to a new artistic impulse as it also gave rise to original and systematic treatises about faith. St. Anselm, innovative theologian and Archbishop of Canterbury, contemplated the qualities of faith […]

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2011/03/21/music-in-the-time-of-saint-anselm/feed/ 0 St. Anselm of Canterbury and Romano Guardini http://www.medievalists.net/2010/11/30/st-anselm-of-canterbury-and-romano-guardini/ http://www.medievalists.net/2010/11/30/st-anselm-of-canterbury-and-romano-guardini/#comments Tue, 30 Nov 2010 16:57:29 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=13131 St. Anselm of Canterbury and Romano Guardini de Gaál, Ph.D., Father Emery (University of St. Mary of the Lake) The Saint Anselm Journal 2.1 (Fall 2004) Abstract Well before World War I, Romano Guardini had felt the deleterious impact of the Kantian critique of religion. As a reaction to Kant and the then prevailing Neo-Scholasticism, […]

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