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The professional relationship between Anselm of Bec (later "of Canterbury") and King William II of England was as rocky as any s...

Technically, he was King William II of England but was called "Rufus" for his reddish beard, William was the third eldest son of W...

In 1134, a man in his 20s entered Rievaulx, a Cistercian abbey in North Yorkshire. A sentence like this has been written many times in this ...

One of Anselm's last challenges was dealing with a challenge to his authority, but this time not from a secular source. England had two ...

As mentioned  here , the relationship between Archbishop of Canterbury Anselm and King Henry I of England was not completely adversarial. He...

I have written before of how William II of England died  unexpectedly, and how his younger brother Henry quickly assumed control of England...

The early Church fathers struggled to explain exactly how salvation worked; that is, what was the actual way that Christ's death and res...

Even during all the political troubles that Anselm of Bec was having with William Rufus because of Anselm's role as Archbishop of Cant...

The professional relationship between Anselm of Canterbury and King William II of England was as rocky as any similar pairing through Engl...

Anselm of Bec was the natural successor to Lanfranc as Archbishop of Canterbury, but King William II "Rufus" left the see vacant ...

Anselm of Canterbury has been referred to in this blog a few times by one of his other names, Anselm of Bec. He was born 1033/34 in the Uppe...

Matilda of Tuscany had become a powerful woman with a great deal of influence in northern Italy. She had a big concern, however: she was th...

Guibert of Nogent, a Benedictine  was not remarkable in his time, but his extensive writings and autobiography have more recently provided i...

Pope Paschal II speaking to Anselm of Canterbury On 13 August 1099, a Cluniac monk from northwest of Rome named Ranierius was named Pop...

Seal of Queen Matilda When King William II died mysteriously in 1100, his brother immediately ascended the throne. Needing a queen, he ...

Anselm of Laon (d.15 July 1117) studied under one of the great names of the day, St. Anselm of Bec, whom I teased about here . He became a m...