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Tables of Contents for Saint Anselm
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
xv
Abbreviations and short titles
xix
Chronology of Anselm's life, works, and canonization
xxvii
PART I FROM BIRTH TO REBIRTH, 1033--1070
1
194
Escape From Confinement
3
11
Family and local background
3
8
Flight to the North
11
3
The Year Of Decision
14
25
The meeting of Anselm and Lanfranc
14
5
The impact of papal policy
19
6
Lanfranc's visit to Rome
25
4
Anselm's apprenticeship
29
3
Notes on intellectual activity at Bec, 1050--1060
32
7
The text of Nicholas II's letter to Lanfranc
32
1
The development of Lanfranc's Commentary on St Paul
33
2
Lanfranc's marginal symbols
35
4
Anselm And Lanfranc
39
28
Lanfranc's contribution to Anselm's future
39
20
Lanfranc as teacher
39
4
Lanfranc as disputant
43
3
The use of grammatical tools
46
1
The use of dialectical tools
47
1
Substance and Accidents
47
3
Equipollent propositions
50
3
Lanfranc as book-collector
53
6
Anselm's recognition of his debt
59
3
Anselm's De Grammatico
62
3
The parting of the ways
65
2
The Years of Silence
67
24
Private and corporate disciplines
67
2
The influence of the Bible
69
2
The influence of St Augustine
71
20
Stylistic similarities
73
4
The discipline of meditation
77
3
Similarities and contrasts
80
2
Different times: different outlooks
82
9
PART II THE RADIANT YEARS, 1070-1093
Anselm's New Start
91
22
Prayers and Meditations
91
2
The devotional background
93
6
The Anselmian transformation
99
7
A new direction in medieval devotion
106
3
Anselm's last phase
109
4
The Great `Meditations'
113
25
Anselm's first peak
113
5
The Monologion
118
9
Talk among friends
118
2
An example of meditation
120
3
Faith and Reason
123
2
Faith and understanding
125
2
The Proslogion
127
11
A supplement to the Monologion
127
2
Meditating on the word `God'
129
3
Presuppositions of Anselm's argument
132
2
Principles of meditation
134
4
The Nature And Importance of Friendship
138
28
Anselm's letters of friendship
138
1
The traditional pattern of friendship
139
2
The new romantic ideal
141
2
The Anselmian experience
143
5
The question of homosexuality
148
5
The symbolism of the kiss
153
2
The theology of friendship
155
6
Friendship and the kingdom of Heaven
161
5
An Unwelcome But Enlarging World
166
29
Theology and the world
167
14
Worldly liberty
167
4
Spiritual liberty
171
3
An outsider's attack
174
7
Anselm faces the world
181
14
The benefactors of Bec
181
5
The reluctant archbishop
186
9
PART III A MONASTIC VIEW IN A DEVELOPING WORLD, 1093-1109
195
170
Anselm And The Human Condition
197
31
Sources of a new dispute
197
8
The Jews
198
4
The Schools
202
3
The outline of Anselm's argument
205
2
The problem
206
1
The necessity of a solution
206
1
The solution
206
1
The rights of the Devil
207
4
Man alone with God
211
5
Freedom, obedience, and punishment
216
5
Feudal imagery and universal order
221
7
`Release My Soul From This Slavery'
228
26
The new archbishop
228
6
The background
228
2
Lanfranc's legacy
230
2
The Investiture dispute
232
2
The framework of archiepiscopal life
234
13
The precepts of Gregory the Great
234
4
Anselm's assistants
238
9
Conflicting evidence
247
7
Eadmer's records and recollections
247
2
Anselm's letters
249
5
A New Archbishop's Problems Of Obedience
254
23
What is the law?
254
5
Problems of monastic obedience
259
5
King Malcolm's daughter
260
2
King Harold's daughter
262
2
Problems of divided obedience
264
13
in becoming an archbishop
265
3
in choosing a pope
268
2
in defending the Canterbury lands
270
2
in holding an ecclesiastical Council
272
2
in consulting the pope
274
3
The Liberty Of The Church
277
31
Two views of liberty
277
1
The fruits of exile
278
11
The anathemas of 1099
280
5
The influence of Hugh, archbishop of Lyons
285
4
Anselm, Henry I, and the liberty of the Church
289
15
Anselm misses a political opportunity
291
3
The problem unfolds
294
4
Anselm reverts to essentials
298
4
The inevitable compromise
302
2
Final reflections
304
4
The Liberty Of A Monastic Community
308
22
Organization under Lanfranc
308
7
Anselm's liberating influence
315
6
Anselmian liberty
321
9
An Old Liberty: The Primacy Of Canterbury
330
35
Principles of primacy
330
5
The privileges of primacy
335
5
Legatine authority
335
2
Territorial extension
337
1
Wales
337
1
Ireland
338
1
Northern England and Scotland
339
1
The struggle with York
340
7
Primacy in action
347
5
Was Canterbury's claim to primacy founded on forgery?
352
13
Lanfranc's words in 1072
354
3
The situation between 1072 and 1120
357
2
The last resort: forgery
359
6
PART IV THE HARVEST OF FRIENDS AND DISCIPLES
365
94
Anselm's Earliest Theological Disciples
367
15
Anselm's circle at Canterbury
367
4
Elaborators of Anselm's thoughts
371
11
Gilbert Crispin, abbot of Westminster
371
1
Ralph, prior of Rochester and abbot of Battle
372
4
Honorius Augustodunensis
376
6
The Collectors Of Anselm's Words And Letters
382
22
Reporters of conversations and sermons
382
12
Eadmer as reporter
384
1
Eadmer's reports of Anselm's talk
384
1
Eadmer's reports of Anselm's sermons
385
4
Alexander's reports
389
1
The reporter of Anselm's parables
390
4
The collectors of Anselm's letters
394
10
General problems of letter collecting
396
2
Two central manuscripts
398
2
The importance of William of Malmesbury's initiative
400
2
The final collections of Canterbury and Bec
402
2
Eadmer And Anselm
404
33
The development of a disciple
404
18
The happy years
404
6
The fall
410
4
Patching up the past
414
2
The road to disaster
416
2
The years of recovery
418
4
Eadmer's Anselm: from intimate portrait to saint's Life
422
6
The intimate portrait
422
4
The saint's Life
426
2
In Anselm's footsteps
428
9
The area of successful imitation
428
2
Eadmer's Prayers and Meditations
430
1
On the excellence of the Blessed Virgin Mary
430
1
An appeal to St Peter
431
1
Eadmer's Guardian Angel
432
1
Eadmer on the Immaculate Conception
432
5
A Backward Glance
437
22
Anselm in his time: between two worlds
437
6
The unity of Anselm's life and thought
443
4
Anselm no humanist
447
5
Anselm and eternity
452
7
APPENDIX Towards a history of Anselm's letters
459
24
I The main manuscripts
459
1
II The problems and their importance
460
1
III Anselm's letters as prior and abbot of Bec
461
5
1 The contents of N
464
1
2 Pre-archiepiscopal letters in V
464
1
3 Pre-archiepiscopal letters in L
465
1
IV Anselm's archiepiscopal correspondence
466
13
1 Preserving the letters
466
1
2 The manner of their preservation
466
2
3 Collecting the letters into volumes
468
1
i Did Anselm make a volume of his archiepiscopal letters?
468
1
ii How were the existing collections made?
469
1
4 The collectors of the letters
470
1
i Eadmer, 1109-1115
470
1
ii William of Malmesbury, 1120--23
470
3
iii The great Canterbury collection: L, c 1123--1130
473
3
iv The great Bec collection: V, c 1125
476
3
V The transmission of the collection
479
1
VI Summary
480
3
Index
483