This is a valuable collection of twenty-one essays based on papers originally delivered at a conference commemorating the nine-hundredth anniversary of the death of St Anselm of Canterbury in 1109. For over fifty years enduring fascination with Anselm and his world has prompted many such conferences and the publication of their proceedings. This volume is an admirable addition to the sequence and also includes promising work by younger scholars. Four chapters are devoted to Anselm and the communities in which he was best remembered. In one of these Samu Niskanen reveals the first fruits of his findings concerning Anselm's letter collections and Sally Vaughn presents the evidence of the remarkable diaspora of Bec monks in England after the Norman conquest. Three essays are devoted to the influence of Anselm's writings in the twelfth century, especially among the Victorines; these chapters help to open up a still rather closed subject. Four chapters concern the rather more intensive use made of Anselm's thought in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, especially by Odo Rigaldi (for Cur Deus Homo), Henry of Ghent (for De veritate), Aquinas, Henry Harclay and Duns Scotus (for Trinitarian theology) and by Scotus again (for speaking with and speaking about God). As these essays show, the later medieval reception of Anselm's thought lies wide open to further enquiry. There are two fine contributions to the still neglected study of Middle English writings influenced by Anselm or translations of his work. The largest of the five parts into which this volume is divided is devoted to twentieth-century and contemporary perspectives. Some chapters, such as Marilyn Adams's on the goodness of God, are original investigations of Anselm's thought. Others probe the work of other writers and commentators including logicians, philosophers and theologians such as Karl Rahner, Hans Blumenberg, Hans Urs von Balthasar, Michael Ramsey and, in a particularly stimulating chapter by Eileen Sweeney on giving and receiving, Gabriel Marcel, Jean-Paul Sartre, Jean-Luc Marion and Jacques Derrida. This is a substantial book but it is also, as the editors observe, far from comprehensive as an assessment of the huge influence that Anselm has had down the centuries. In particular, the impact of Anselm's thought from the Reformation period to the nineteenth century is omitted and there is very little on the legacy of Anselm as abbot and archbishop, the man of action rather than the thinker and the pastoral writer. But, as the editors write, the memory of Anselm as a historical figure faded rather quickly.