Anselm was born at Aosta in northern Italy in 1033 and, after years of wandering, entered the Norman monastery of Bec under the scholar Lanfranc, later becoming its abbot. There he wrote the Monologion and the Proslogion.
In 1093 he reluctantly became archbishop of Canterbury. His defence of the church's freedom against the English kings William II and Henry I twice sent him into exile, during which he completed Why God Became Man. He died in 1109.
Anselm of Canterbury in the library (1 work)
- Proslogium; Monologium; Cur Deus Homo — 1903
Anselm's ontological argument, his meditation on the being of God, Gaunilo's reply, and Why God Became Man.