St. Anselm
Subtitle: A Portrait in a Landscape
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: January 25, 1991
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 525
ISBN-13: 9780521362627
Subjects: British & Irish history: c 1000 to c 1500; c 1000 CE to c 1500; History - General History; Christian Mysticism; Western Europe - General; Religion; British Isles; Europe; Anselm; Anselm - Saint; History / Great Britain; Biography; 1033-1109; Anselm,; Christian saints; England; Saint, Archbishop of Canterbur; Saint, Archbishop of Canterbury,
First sentence: Anselm was born in 1033 in the Alpine town of Aosta, an ancient Roman town, which then had many, and still has some, huge Roman buildings - amphitheatre, Praesidium, triumphal arch, walls and fortified gatehouses - gaunt witnesses to a great past among the scattered remains of early medieval settlement.