Melissa Wilburn
Dr. Catherine Eskin
British Literature
12 September 2011
Annotated Bibliography – The Wilburn Edition
Alchin, Linda. “Medieval Nuns” The Middle Ages. November 16 2008. Web. September
11 2011.
This website was filled with information about the middle ages. It contained a
section of links and the visitor clicks on the link that is most beneficial to their
area of study. It contains links for “Life in the Middle Ages,” “Middle Ages
Religion,” “Middle Ages Torture,” and much more. I used this website to find
information about nuns in the middle ages. The information I found was
extremely interesting and helpful. Now I am able to explain a medieval nun’s
duties, vows, behavior, etc. to the class.
Bruno, Michael J.S. “The Investiture Contest in Norman England: A Struggle between
St. Anselm of Canterbury and the Norman Kings: Part I.” American Benedictine
Review June 2010: Vol. 61 Issue 2, p119-137. Web. EBSCOHOST.
This article is about Investiture Contest in Norman England and the struggles
between the medieval secular and religious power. It discusses the various
religious and royal individuals who dealt with the reoccurring problem of finding
the correct balance of royal and religious political and social power. I used this
article to obtain a better understanding of what St. Anselm was doing to get
himself exiled from England twice. Apparently, St. Anselm was very opinionated
on this subject of power.
Epistolae: Medieval Women’s Letters. Columbia University. Web. September 11 2011.
This website was filled with different medieval letters. If there is a certain subject
the visitor would like to read a letter about, they would type their subject into the
search bar and get pages of excellent letter choices. I used the search bar and
found my letter from this website. The best part about this website is it gives you
the original letter, translated letter, historical context, scholarly notes, etc. This
website got me off to a great start because I already had a lot of research just
from using this website to find a letter.
Hopkins, Jasper. A Companion to the Study of St. Anselm. Minneapolis: University of
Minnesota Press, 1972. Print
This book gives the reader a shot at attempting to understand St. Anselm’s logic,
methods, and arguments, among other things. It contains a section on Anselm’s
methods of arguing, his philosophical fragments, English translations of his works
and much more. I personally used this resource for the chapter on the
Ontological Argument. St. Anselm is the originator of this argument and I wanted
to understand exactly what it is so I can use it as an aspect of my presentation.
Knowles, David. Saints and Scholars. Cambridge: At the University Press, 1963. Print.
This helpful book gives a short biography among other interesting facts about
different saints and scholars in the Medieval period. There are about twenty five
Medieval saints and scholars mentioned in this book, and St. Anselm just
happens to be one of them. This book was very useful because it provided me
with background information on St. Anselm, such as being exiled from England,
his mentor, and other valuable things. Also, it verified facts I had already found
on the internet, but wasn’t certain were correct.