page_title: Anselm of Laon
section_title: Works
hierarchical_section_title: Anselm of Laon / Works
caption_attribution_description: English: The Rebdorf Psalter: Book of Psalms with Gloss by Anselm of Laon. From the Schøyen Collection.
context_page_description: Anselm of Laon, properly Ansel, was a French theologian and founder of a school of scholars who helped to pioneer biblical hermeneutics.
context_section_description: Anselm's greatest work, an interlinear and marginal gloss on the 'Scriptures', the Glossa ordinaria, now attributed to him and his followers, was one of the great intellectual achievements of the Middle Ages. It has been frequently reprinted. The significance of the gloss, which was most likely assembled after Anselm's death by his students, such as Gilbert de la Porrée, and based on Anselm's teaching, is that it marked a new way of learning — it represented the birth of efforts to present discrete patristic and earlier medieval interpretations of individual verses of Scripture in a readily accessible, easily  referenced way. This theme was subsequently adopted and extended by the likes of Hugh of St. Victor, Peter Lombard and later Thomas Aquinas, who gave us 'handbooks' for what we would now call theology.
  Other commentaries apparently by Anselm have been ascribed to various writers, principally to Anselm of Canterbury.
  The works are collected in Migne. Some of his Sententiae were edited at Milan by G. Lefevre in 1894. The commentary on the Psalms attributed to Haymo of Halberstadt by Migne has also been identified as possibly being the work of Anselm.
caption: The Rebdorf Psalter: Book of Psalms with Gloss by Anselm of Laon.
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