How to write and publish in the Middle Ages: Eadmer and St Anselm

Unknown, Eadmer of Canterbury (English, about 1055 - 1124) De Vita et Conversatione Anselmi Cantuariensis, 1140 to 1150, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

We moderns easily forget that the medieval texts we read in manuscript or in print are the result of a complex process of composition; that writers didn't just 'pen' words and sentences as they cam…