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Berengar of Tours
Berengar of Tours , c.1000-1088?, French theologian, also called Bérenger and Berengarius, b. Tours. He was archdeacon of Angers (c.1040-1060). After studying at Chartres, he returned to Tours to become head of its cathedral school. Berengar is said to have denied the Real Presence in the Eu... Read more
Lanfranc
Lanfranc , d. 1089, Italian churchman and theologian, archbishop of Canterbury (1070-89), b. Pavia. At first educated in civil law, he turned to theology and became a pupil of Berengar of Tours . After teaching in Avranches, Normandy, he went to Bec (c.1040), where he founded an illustrious school ... Read more
Otto I
Otto I or Otto the Great, 912-73, Holy Roman emperor (962-73) and German king (936-73), son and successor of Henry I of Germany. He is often regarded as the founder of the Holy Roman Empire . Boldly developing the policies that his father had begun, Otto brought the Middle Kingdom of the Carol... Read more
John XII
John XII c.937-964, pope (955-64), a Roman (count of Tusculum) named Octavian; successor of Agapetus II and predecessor of either Leo VIII or Benedict V. His father, Alberic, secured John's election before the latter was 20 years old. John's life was notoriously immoral and his pontificate a disgra... Read more
Eleanor of Provence
Eleanor of Provence , d. 1291, queen consort of Henry III of England. The daughter of Raymond Berengar, count of Provence, she was married to Henry in 1236. She was a vigorous and incisive woman and had much influence on her husband, as did her unpopular relatives and other foreign courtiers who f... Read more
Ivrea
Ivrea , city (1991 pop. 24,704), Piedmont, NW Italy, on the Dora Baltea River. It is a commercial and industrial center, and it is the headquarters of Olivetti, an important Italian company. Manufactures include typewriters, computers, and textiles. A Roman town ( Eporedia ), it was later the capita... Read more
Saint Peter Damian
Saint Peter Damian , Ital. Pietro Damiani, 1007?-1072, Italian reformer, b. Ravenna. He became a Camaldolese monk at Fonte-Avellino (near Gubbio) and because of his rigor and asceticism was made prior. He was a strong advocate of church reform and wrote (c.1050) the Liber Gomorrhianus, a scathin... Read more
Saint Leo IX
Saint Leo IX 1002-54, pope (1049-54), a German named Bruno of Toul, b. Alsace; successor of Damasus II. A relative of Holy Roman Emperor Henry III, he was educated at Toul and was made bishop there in 1027. Leo traveled widely, vigorously combating clerical incontinence and simony; his pontificate ... Read more
house of Aragón
house of Aragón family that ruled in Aragón, Catalonia, Majorca, Sicily, Naples, Sardinia, Athens, and other territories in the Middle Ages. It was descended from Ramiro I of Aragón (1035-63), natural son of Sancho III of Navarre. Under Ramiro's successors— Sancho I ,... Read more
Barcelona
Barcelona , city (1990 pop. 4,738,354), capital of Barcelona prov. and chief city of Catalonia, NE Spain, on the Mediterranean Sea. Economy Situated on a plain between the Llobregat and Besós rivers and lying between mountains and the sea, Barcelona is the second largest city of Spa... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "Berengar"

Berengar of Tours
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Berengar of Tours , c.1000-1088?, French...become head of its cathedral school. Berengar is said to have denied the Real Presence...contemporaries, particularly Lanfranc . Berengar was defended by Pope Gregory VII and Peter...
Berengar II
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Berengar II , d. 966, marquis of Ivrea. In 950 he...intervention (951) of Otto I of Germany. Berengar swore fealty to Otto in 952. Later he ravaged...XII against Otto, who captured and imprisoned Berengar in 963.
Raymond Berengar IV
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Raymond Berengar IV , d. 1162, count of Barcelona (1131-62). He married Petronilla, daughter and heir of King Ramiro II of Aragó...
Otto I
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...about to be forced into a marriage with the son of Berengar II . Defeating Berengar, Otto assumed the title king of the Lombards, married Adelaide, and returned to Germany, where Berengar eventually paid him homage. In Germany another...
Lanfranc
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...turned to theology and became a pupil of Berengar of Tours . After teaching in Avranches...perhaps Pope Alexander II. In 1049, Berengar impugned Lanfranc's orthodoxy, and...successfully clearing himself, attacked Berengar in turn. Some 10 years later Lanfranc...
Alfonso II
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...Alfonso II 1152-96, king of Aragón (1162-96) and, as Raymond Berengar V, count of Barcelona (1162-96); son and successor of Raymond Berengar IV of Barcelona and Petronilla of Aragón. He inherited Provence (1166...
John XII
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...pontificate a disgrace. He called on Otto I to help him against Berengar II of Italy. John crowned (962) Otto the first German emperor...emperor's new influence in papal affairs, John sided with Berengar's party against Otto. In retaliation, Otto invaded Rome...
Conrad the Red
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...He accompanied (951) his father-in-law to Italy against Berengar II . Remaining in Italy as Otto's representative, he concluded a peace treaty with the defeated Berengar. Otto, however, considered the treaty too lenient and drastically...
Adelaide
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...the death (950) of her first husband, King Lothair of Italy, she was about to be forced into a marriage with the son of Berengar II , Lothair's successor. She appealed to Otto I , who rescued and married her in 951. After living in Lombardy (985...
Holy Roman Empire
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...XII, various rulers bore the imperial title but exercised no authority; among them were Louis III, king of Provence, and Berengar I, king of Italy. Nature of the Empire From the time of Otto's reign the imperial office was based on the German kingship...

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Berengar of Tours
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church Berengar of Tours ( c. 1010–88), theologian. His family was connected with St Martin's, Tours, and by 1030 he was a...
John XII
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church ...Germany to help him against the rulers of N. Italy, King Berengar II and his son. In 962 he crowned Otto Roman Emperor. Otto...engineered a revolt among the imperial troops and sought aid from Berengar and the Byzantines. In 963 Otto presided over a synod in Rome...
Leo IX, St
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church ...celibacy was enforced on all the clergy, and soon afterwards various Councils promulgated decrees against simony and other abuses. At a synod in Rome in 1050 Berengar of Tours was condemned for his Eucharistic doctrine. Feast day, 19 Apr.
Abailard, Pierre
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...France, 1079; d. near Chalon-sur-Saone, France, 21 April 1142) logic, theology, philosophy. Abailard was the son of Berengar, lord of Le Pallet, but he abandoned the militaristic and governmental traditions of the nobility . He did preserve, however...
Eucharist
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church ...attempt at precise definition. After the controversies arising from assertions by Paschasius Radbertus in the 9th cent. and Berengar in the 11th, definition was felt to be desirable. The Fourth Lateran Council (1215) used the term ‘ transubstantiation...
Hugh, St
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church ...he exercised a dominating influence on ecclesiastical and political affairs. He took part in securing the condemnation of Berengar of Tours (1050) and encouraged Gregory VII's efforts at reform. Under Hugh the monastery reached a position never surpassed...
Liudprand
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church ...Liudprand ( c. 922– c. 972), or ‘Liutprand’, Bp. of Cremona. He entered the service of Berengar, ruler of northern Italy, but then transferred his allegiance to the Emp. Otto I, who nominated him Bp. of Cremona in...
Guibert of Nogent
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church Guibert of Nogent ( c. 1053/65– c. 1125), Abbot of Nogent, near Laon, from 1104. He opposed Berengar's Eucharistic teaching. He wrote Moralia on Genesis, prefaced by an essay on biblical interpretation and preaching; a tract...
Lanfranc
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church ...Ordinaria ’. His De Corpore et Sanguine Domini was the first widely-known criticism of the Eucharistic teaching of Berengar of Tours . Lanfranc held that the consecrated elements contained the invisible Body and Blood of Christ, but hidden under...

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Theology, Rhetoric, and Politics in the Eucharistic Controversy, 1078-1079: Alberic of Monte Cassino against Berengar of Tours.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Church History; 9/1/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...1079: Alberic of Monte Cassino against Berengar of Tours. By Charles M. Radding and...controversy surrounding the French scholastic, Berengar of Tours, not only stands out as a seminal...the middle of the eleventh century, Berengar of Tours, the cathedral canon renown...
Theology, Rhetoric, and Politics in the Eucharistic Controversy, 1078-1079: Alberic of Monte Cassino Against Berengar of Tours
Magazine article from: The Catholic Historical Review; 1/1/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...1079: Alberic of Monte Cassino Against Berengar of Tours. By Charles M. Radding and...over the Eucharist that swirled around Berengar, the scholasticus of Tours, in the...Roman synods of 1078 and 1079 in which Berengar's case was heard. The last section...
Theology, Rhetoric, and Politics in the Eucharistic Controversy, 1087-1079: Alberic of Monte Cassino Against Berengar of Tours.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Theological Studies; 12/1/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...1079: ALBERIC OF MONTE CASSINO AGAINST BERENGAR OF TOURS. By Charles Radding and Francis...xiv + 197. $59.50; $19.50. Berengar of Tours (d. 1088), from the late...chronicle, this work "utterly destroyed" Berengar's doctrine. Long presumed lost, R...
Zhou's 'Baby' rocks Pfahl Film's world.('Shanghai Baby')(Berengar Pfahl Film to make a movie based on a novel by Wei Hui)(Brief article)
Magazine article from: Daily Variety; 5/19/2006; ; 690 words ; Germany's Berengar Pfahl Film is to produce "Shanghai Baby," a tale of sexual liberation...looking for the male leads. English-language screenplay, from which Berengar Pfahl will direct, is penned by Margaret Hennig and Martin Hennig...
Dialectic and Theology in the Eleventh Century.
Magazine article from: Theological Studies; 3/1/1998; ; 700+ words ; ...anti-dialecticians." Endres cast Berengar of Tours as the ultra-rationalist...of dialectic as his means of attacking Berengar's position. The case against Lanfranc...the heroes of H.'s investigation are Berengar and Anselm, both of whom are presented...
Ein Liebhaber ungerader Zahlen.(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: World Literature Today; 9/22/1994; ; 700+ words ; ...series of comic coincidences, one Harro Berengar, the "West Prussian James Joyce...into the city. Arriving just then, Berengar follows the Jaguar and thus sees at first...seeks at the same time that it bestows on Berengar, as the person who identified Fenix...
Heretics and Scholars in the High Middle Ages, 1000-1200.
Magazine article from: Church History; 9/1/1999; ; 700+ words ; ...centuries, and the attacks and condemnations of the teachings of Berengar of Tours, Peter Abelard, William of Conches, and Gilbert...and somewhat intolerant orthodoxy was the new phenomenon. Berengar was being condemned in the late eleventh century for views...
Christ's Eucharistic Presence: A History of the Doctrine.
Magazine article from: Theological Studies; 3/1/1996; ; 700+ words ; ...history of the doctrine of eucharistic presence. This journey begins with the conflicts between Redbirds and Ratramnus and Berengar and Lanfranc. Some kind of resolution is reached in the time of Aquinas with the concept of transubstantiation. But divisions...
Phasma.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly; 9/22/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...When the devil saw that the pope (his ally) could not stop Luther, he himself stirred up new interest in old heresies of Berengar, Nestorius, Eutyches, and Arius. Out of the confusion streamed the splinter-groups of the later Reformation: Anabaptists...
What authority?(church discussion on sex and authority)(Column)
Magazine article from: The Christian Century; 10/23/1996; ; 700+ words ; ...529 and its Council of Orange. Then came fights over the Eucharist. Radbertus kicked up a fuss in the ninth century, and Berengar followed in the 11th, but it wasn't until 1215 that everyone got pooped and stopped the main fighting. Enough? No, around...