Monks and Milites: Order in Anselm’s Court Analogy

Alastair R.E. Forbes

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Order in Anselm’s Court Analogy

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Pages:: 403–428

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004716308_021

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This chapter explores the analogy of the courts of God and princes made by Anselm, and reproduced by several of his students, with specific regard to its place within Anselm’s broader sociological and soteriological philosophy. It argues that the right order of society, espoused by Anselm and presented in the court analogy, reflected a superiority of monasticism through the duty of service to God which all of humanity was subject to. The chapter also considers how this reflects the interrelationships between the ubiquitous figures of the knight (miles), lord, and monk in medieval society, and how Anselm’s conceptual thought could be utilised practically to influence opinion as well as reflect it. Eadmer’s reproduction of the analogy in the Vita Anselmi is explored in more detail, considering his utilisation of Anselm’s societal conceptualisations as a means of promoting his own purpose to deflect extant criticism of Anselm and remind his fellow-monks, through the voice of the archbishop himself, of their duty of service to God above all other concerns.

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Anselm of Canterbury

Nature, Order and the Divine

Series: Anselm Studies and Texts, Volume: 8

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004716308

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 11 Dec 2024

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