Cistercian and Monastic Studies Group

Cistercian and Monastic Studies Group

Rhetoric in the Letters of Anselm of Canterbury

Bequette, John P.

The paper is an exposition of Anselm’s letters to archbishop Lanfranc, analyzing Anselm’s use of rhetorical devices and tropes in order to establish and reinforce his complex relationship with archbishop Lanfranc, rooted in their shared monasatic experience.