Anselm at Schiavia.
He writes "Cur Deus Homo."
Anselm and Urban before Capua.
- drawn with John Abbot of Telesia to seek quiet in a town
of the Abbot's on the upper Vulturnus, whose name of Schiavia may suggest some ethnological questions.[1] Our guide specially marks that this journey was a journey into Samnium; he may not have fully taken in how truly Telesia was the heart of Samnium, alike in the days of the Pontius of the Caudine Forks and in the days of the Pontius of the Colline Gate.[2] Here, in his Samnite retreat, Anselm was moulding the theology of all later times by his treatise which told why God became Man.[3] Meanwhile William of England, at war with righteousness in all its forms, held Helias in his prison at Bayeux,[4] and plotted against Anselm in his hermitage at Schiavia. When Duke Roger's army was so near, the master of Normandy deemed that something might be done for his purpose by Norman arms or Norman craft. He sent letters—his letters could go speedily when speed was needed—to stir up Duke Roger to do some mischief to the man whom he hated.[5] The plot was in vain. Anselm was invited to the Duke's camp; he was received there with all honour during a sojourn of some time, as he was at every other point of the Duke's dominions to which he went.[6] The Pope and Anselm,in villam suam Sclaviam nomine, quæ in montis altitudine sita, sano jugiter aere conversantibus illic habilis exstat."]*
- ↑ Eadmer, Hist. Nov. 45. "Ducit eum [abbas
- ↑ See Historical Essays, Second Series, p. 357, ed. 2; Arnold, Hist. Rome, ii. 365.
- ↑ Vita Anselmi, ii. 4. 43.
- ↑ We shall come to this in another chapter.
- ↑ The reception of Anselm by Duke Roger is described by Eadmer in both his works (Hist. Nov. 46, and in the Life, ii. 5. 45). The plots of William Rufus come from William of Malmesbury (Gest. Pont. 98); "Adeo ut Rogerus dux Apuliæ, apud quem rex Angliæ illum litteris insimulandum curaverat, spretis neniis, longe aliter sententiam suam in viri honorem transferret."
- ↑ There is something rather singular in the picture of the Pope and Anselm dwelling in the camp of the besiegers (Hist. Nov. 46); "Plures
