Editing Anselm of Laon (section)

== Works ==
[[Image:Anselm Sentences.jpg|thumb|250px|left|Systematic Sentences attributed to St. Anselm of Laon.]][[File:The Rebdorf Psalter Gloss by Anselm.jpg|thumb|250px|The Rebdorf Psalter: Book of Psalms with Gloss by Anselm of Laon.]]

Anselm's greatest work, an interlinear and marginal [[Gloss (annotation)|gloss]] on the 'Scriptures', the [[Glossa ordinaria]], now attributed to him and his followers,<ref>{{cite book |last=Lindberg |first=David |year=1978 |title=Science in the Middle Ages |location=Chicago |publisher=University of Chicago Press |isbn=0226482324 }}</ref> was one of the great intellectual achievements of the [[Middle Ages]]. It has been frequently reprinted.<ref name="EB1911"/> The significance of the gloss, which was most likely assembled after Anselm's death by his students, such as [[Gilbert de la Porrée]], and based on Anselm's teaching, is that it marked a new way of learning&nbsp;— it represented the birth of efforts to present discrete [[patristic]] and earlier medieval interpretations of individual verses of Scripture in a readily accessible, easily referenced way. This theme was subsequently adopted and extended by the likes of [[Hugh of St. Victor]], [[Peter Lombard]] and later [[Thomas Aquinas]], who gave us 'handbooks' for what we would now call [[theology]].

Other commentaries apparently by Anselm have been ascribed to various writers, principally to Anselm of Canterbury.{{refn|A list of them, with notice of Anselm's life, is contained in the ''[[Histoire littéraire de la France]]'', x. 170-189.}}<ref name="EB1911"/>

The works are collected in [[Jacques Paul Migne|Migne]].<ref>{{citation |last=Migne |first=Jacques Paul |title=Patrologiae Cursus Completus, [[Patrologia Latina]], ''Vol. CLXII'' }}. {{in lang|la}}</ref> Some of his ''Sententiae'' were edited at Milan by G. Lefevre in 1894.<ref>{{citation |last=Hauréau |first=Barthélemy |author-link=Barthélemy Hauréau |title=Journal des savants |date=1895 }}.</ref><ref name="EB1911"/> The commentary on the Psalms attributed to [[Haymo of Halberstadt]] by Migne<ref>''PL'', Vol. CXVI.</ref> has also been identified as possibly being the work of Anselm.