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Biography

He was educated at the episcopal school of

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, and became canon and dean of the cathedral, where he enjoyed the friendship of the

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, Wazo. His chronicle, regarded as one of the best of the period, both for literary merit and for historical value, is known as the , and is a continuation of the earlier work by

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(d. 1007) that dealt with the first twenty-seven bishops, from

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(90) to Remaclus (680). Anselm's work, written at the request of his godmother, the countess Ida, Abbess of St. Cecilia, Cologne, added the lives of twenty-five more bishops, down to Wazo, of whom he gave a very full and particular account. The is to be found in the (, VII, 161-234; also , XIV, 107-120 (1883)). The 1913

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praises Anselm for his clarity, his "critical intelligence", and his "zeal for church reform".

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