Anselme de Laon

Anselme de Laon (born between 1050 and 1055, dead on July 15th 1117) was a Théologien French Moyen-âge.

Born in a very humble family with Laon before the middle from the 11th century, he was the disciple of holy Bruno, écolâtre of Rheims, the future founder of the Grande Chartreuse, or saint Anselme de Canterbury, abbot of the Abbaye Notre-Dame of the Nozzle. Towards 1076 it taught with a great success in Paris, where, with Guillaume de Champeaux, it fought realistic side in the controversy scholastic. Later it was withdrawn in its birthplace and was Maître of the schools of Laon, with his Raoul brother, of 1090 approximately until its death. Its school of theology and interpretation quickly became most famous in Europe. In 1113 it drove out Abélard of it.

He was the senior and the chancellor of Laon starting from 1109 approximately and the archdeacon starting from 1115.

The Liber Pancrisi (C. 1120) calls it, with Yves of Chartres and Guillaume de Champeaux, one of the three modern Masters.

Here the epitaph engraved on its tomb with the Abbey Saint-Vincent de Laon:
" He sleeps in this tomb the very famous Master Anselme
With which by the countries and the climates of vast the monde
Were worth the celebrity everywhere, everywhere the louange
Faith without defect, fertile doctrines, virtue respectable
Luminous life, generous hand, action prudente
Pleasant eloquence, vigilant firmness, correction indulgente
Wisdom in the council, modesty, attention and douceur
But these gifts which largely the grace of Dieu
piled up to him Dark July dispersed them at the harmful day of the ides
Since it was its force in the vie
That the grace accompanies it in the mort."

Works

The greatest work of Anselme was the edition of a Glose intralinéaire and marginal of the “Holy Scriptures”, which was often copied and became the common reference of the teaching of the medieval schools. According to a legend without base, he would have been the inventor of the interlinear distinction between glose, written between the lines and bearing on the words, and glose marginal, bearing on the text. This distinction does not resist the examination of the manuscripts. On the other hand, it could be well at the origin of the use of the glose, revised by its care and those of collaborators, like school text of reference. This didactic news was diffused quickly, after the death of Anselme, thanks to its disciples, like Gilbert of Porrée, and was adopted into the schools parisiennes.
The list of its works which is read in l'Histoire literary of France, X. 170-189.
is to be taken with more the greatest caution and was completely revised by the historiography of the beginning of XXIe century. Some of its works are in the Patrologia Latina de Migne, with volume 162; the collections of Sententiae published to date take account only of part of the handwritten tradition. New editions are in preparation.

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