Research topic: 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 and became prior (c.1043). Among his pupils were St. Anselm and perhaps Pope Alexander II. In 1049, Berengar impugned Lanfranc's orthodoxy, and Lanfranc, successfully clearing himself, attacked Berengar in turn. Some 10 years later Lanfranc wrote the treatise De Corpore et Sanguine Domine ... Read more