Charity and Enmity in the Writings of Anselm of Havelberg

"Charity and Enmity in the Writings of Anselm of Havelberg." Scholars interested in the writings of Anselm of Havelberg have generally assumed that his defense of the canonical life (the Epistola apologetica) , histoty of the faithful (De unitate fidei), and account of his debates with a Greek archbishop were all written during the period 1149-1151. In interpreting these works, this assumption has led scholars to construe the Epistola and De unitate fidei as expressions of the same ideas. This article seeks first of all to date Anselm's works and to demonstrate that the Epistola was written some ten years before De unitate fidei. Second, it shows that the caustic attack on monasticism of the Epistola should not be read into De unitate fidei, nor the charitable tenor of the latter into the former.