A monk of Christ Church, Canterbury, and the closest companion of
St Anselm, Eadmer (c.1060-c.1126) witnessed the archbishop's
disputes with William II and Henry I and accompanied him twice into
exile. This edition of Anselm's biography, which Eadmer began to
write during those years of exile, was published by the Rolls
Series in 1884. With English side-notes to the main Latin text, it
includes the Historia novorum, remarkable for its use of direct
speech in relating the life of Anselm and his controversial
relations with the monarchy. The Vita is a record of his private
conversations, to which Eadmer attached a series of posthumous
miracles. Eadmer was ordered to destroy the manuscripts by Anselm
around 1100, but fortunately he retained his notes. The work is the
best contemporary life of the saint, but also offers a history of
Canterbury and a zealous defence of Anglo-Saxon tradition.
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