33. To The Monk Henry.
The Letters of St. Anselm NOTES 1. See Ep 25.
2. Maurice was one of Anselm's favorite young monks and among those who urged him to write the Monologion (see Ep 72). Maurice went to Canterbury to study but later returned to Bee. Anselm addressed ten letters to him: Epp 42, 43, 47, 51, 60, 64, 69, 74, 79, 97. In other letters he recommended him to his friends at Canterbury: Epp 33, 34, 35,
36, 40, 42. From 1080 to about 1085 Maurice was at Conflans, a re cently founded cell of Bee. For an analysis of Anselm's relationship with Maurice, see Brian P. McGuire, 'Love, friendship and sex in the eleventh century: the experience of Anselm', Studia Theologica (1974)
131-140, and his Friendship and Community, 217-219.
3. Albert was a secular priest who went with Lanfranc from Bee, via Caen, to Canterbury. M. Rule conjectures that he was probably a Lom bard who had been trained in the medical school of Bologna, had fol lowed Lanfranc and always remained in the vicinity of the monasteries of Bee, Caen, and Christ Church Canterbury; see Rule I: 144. In Ep
36 to Albert, Anselm begs him to take care of his friend Maurice, and in Ep 44 thanks him for having cured him.
33. TO THE MONK HENRY.
Anselm warmly recommends Maurice to Henry at Christ Church, Canterbury, and promises to welcome the Canterbury monk Holvard to Bee; he begs him to have Maurice's headache treated by Albert the physician.
TO HIS FELLOW-MONK AND MOST BELOVED BROTHER HENRY:
BROTHER ANSELM WISHES ENDURING FREEDOM FROM HARM IN
THIS LIFE AND ETERNAL HAPPINESS IN THE NEXT.
I TRUST YOU ARE AWARE of how much I have always loved our fellow-monk and brother and son Maurice, whom we are sending to you. Since, therefore, we do not doubt that those we love are loved by him we love, and by him who loves us, we confidently commend him to you as the beloved to the beloved. In you may he find me whom he has, as it were, relinquished for you. For this reason, there fore, we have sent him and nobody else to your paternal love, because we have heard that you especially asked for him. Therefore you should be brother Anselm to our
Maurice and I will be Dom Henry to your Holvard.1 As