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St. Anselm of Canterbury | Further Reading

FURTHER READING

CRITICISM

Bäck, Allan. “Anselm on Perfect Islands.” Franciscan Studies 43 (1983): 188-204.

Schematizes Anselm's counterargument to Gaunilo regarding that critic's objection to his lost, perfect island line of reasoning originally laid out in the Proslogion.

Bestul, Thomas H. “St. Anselm, the Monastic Community at Canterbury, and Devotional Writing in Late Anglo-Saxon England.” Anselm Studies: An Occasional Journal 1 (1983): 186-98.

Reviews the manuscript tradition of Anselm's collected prayers and meditations Orationes sive meditationes.

Bourke, Vernon J. “A Millennium of Christian Platonism: Augustine, Anselm, and Ficino.” Proceedings of the PMR Conference 10 (1985): 1-22.

Briefly encapsulates Anselm's philosophical thought, calling it “Theocentric Platonism,” as part of a combined survey of developments in Christian Platonism from the fifth to the...

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