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By H. E. J. Cowdrey

ISBN-10: 0199259607

ISBN-13: 9780199259601

Lanfranc of Pavia used to be archbishop of Canterbury from 1070 to 1089, and so for nineteen severe years within the heritage of the Anglo-Norman church and country after the Norman conquest of 1066. He got here to Canterbury with lengthy event of highbrow and ecclesiastical currents, together with reforming currents, in mid-eleventh-century western Europe. at the start involved in the liberal arts, after migrating to Normandy he became to sacred learn; he commented upon the
Pauline Epistles and engaged Berengar of excursions in eucharistic controversy. He turned renowned within the fourishing monastic lifetime of Normandy at Bec and as abbot of Duke William's beginning of Saint-Etienne at Caen. At Canterbury, he used to be King William's unswerving and powerful collaborator in renewing and
reordering church lifestyles, utilizing councils as a primary means.

By no capacity a 'court-prelate', Lanfranc might be most sensible characterised as a monk-archbishop, a job during which he was once strengthened via being ex-officio abbot of a cathedral monastery at Canterbury. Canterbury's status and pursuits have been a huge crisis; Lanfranc claimed for the see a primacy over the total British Isles. in the direction of the nice pope of his day, Gregory VII (1073-85), he was once strangely cool.

This is the 1st complete scholarly research of Lanfranc for thirty years. It reconsiders his occupation and extraordinary achievements in all significant points, concentrating on his traits of knowledge, diligence, and statesmanship. it's an clever and thought of old biography which brings Lanfranc out from the shadow of his successor, St Anselm, and divulges him as one of the very maximum of the archbishops of Canterbury.

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