Saint Anselm (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry)

This is Thomas Williams's Saint Anselm entry in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, a continuously revised, peer reviewed reference work rather than a fixed edition monograph, each entry assigned to a subject specialist and checked by a subject editor before publication, then revisable as scholarship moves. Williams is a recognised Anselm scholar with his own translations of Anselm's works in print, so the entry carries the standing of an expert synthesis rather than an anonymous survey. Its strength is exactly that peer editorial process together with public correction over time. Its limit is that an encyclopedia entry compresses a large secondary literature into a summary, so a claim resting on a specific contested reading of the ontological argument or of Cur Deus Homo should be checked against Williams's own cited primary and secondary sources rather than treated as the entry's final word.