ANSELM  , of

Laon (d . 1117), French theologian, was born of very humble parents at Laon before the middle of the 11th century . He is said to have studied under St Anselm at Bee . About 1076 he taught with great success at Paris, where, as the associate of William of Champeaux, he upheld the realistic side of the scholastic controversy . Later he removed to his native place, where his school for theology and exegetics rapidly became the most famous in Europe . He died in 1117 . His greatest work, an interlinear gloss on the Scriptures, was one of the great authorities of the middle ages . It has been frequently reprinted . Other commentaries apparently by him have been ascribed to various writers, principally to the great Anselm . A list of them, with notice of Anselm's Iife, is contained in the Histoire litteraire de la France, x . T70-18Q . The works are collected in Migne's Patrologia Latina, tome 16g; some unpublished Sententiae were edited by G .

Lefevre (

Milan, 1894), on which see Haureau in the Journal des savants for 1895 .