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The Medieval Church · c. 1112–1125
The Life of Anselm
Eadmer of Canterbury · c. 1060–c. 1126
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What it is
A secretary's record of his archbishop's conversation, temper, table talk, and exile, taken down while Anselm was alive and hidden when he ordered it destroyed.
Why it lasted
The most intimate biography of the Middle Ages, and the first to be built from notes made day by day.
Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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