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'Across a seemingly unbridgeable culture gap these very human saints of the Egyptian wilderness speak to our condition in the new demon-filled deserts of the urban west' (Martin Smith SSJE).

St Anselm (1033-1109) was the abbot of the Benedictine monastery of Bec in France before becoming Archbishop of Canterbury. This study discusses the relationship between his scholarship and life as a monk, showing how one flowed naturally from the...