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    three years. His countryman Lanfranc of Pavia was then prior of the Benedictine abbey of Bec in Normandy. Attracted by Lanfranc's reputation, Anselm reached...
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    education. Thomas may also have studied with Lanfranc in Normandy while the latter was teaching at the Abbey of Bec, and some scholars contend that he also...
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  • It was traditionally believed that Anselm de Baggio studied under Lanfranc at Bec Abbey. However, modern historiography rejects the assertion. He became...
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  • dispensation was finally awarded in 1059 by Pope Nicholas II. Lanfranc, at the time prior of Bec Abbey, negotiated the arrangement in Rome and it came only...
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    cathedral chapter of secular clergy with monks, and consulted the king and Lanfranc, the Archbishop of Canterbury, before going to Rome to receive permission...
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    Press. p. 29. ISBN 978-0-86193-106-4. Gibson, Margaret T. (1978). Lanfranc of Bec. Oxford: Clarendon Press. ISBN 978-0-19-822462-4. Grainge, Christine;...
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  • book as a source for his view of the Eucharist in his debate with Lanfranc of Bec, and was summarily condemned by the local Council of Vercelli in 1050...
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    quarter century earlier, or Guilleuma de Rosers, who composed a tenso with Lanfranc Cigala, known between 1235 and 1257. There exist brief prose biographies—vidas—for...
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    Bernard Garnier, and Christophe Maneuvrier (eds.), Sur les pas de Lanfranc, du Bec à Caen: Recueil d’études en homage à Véronique Gazeau, Cahiers des...
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  • Benedictine habit in 1060 at Bec (Normandy), where his countryman Bl. Lanfranc had started a school at the Abbey of Bec; soon he was well known for his...
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    Bishop Gundulf, a monk from the Abbey of Bec in Normandy came to England in 1070 as Archbishop Lanfranc's assistant at Canterbury. His talent for architecture...
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  • Collectio Lanfranci (Lanfranc's Collection), a collection of decretals made in the 11th century and attributed to Lanfranc of Bec (b. 1005, d. 1089). D...
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    Peter Damian (circa 1007–1072), Berengar of Tours (circa 1000–1088), Lanfranc of Bec (circa 1005–1089), John of Fécamp (abbot, 1028–1078), and Anselm of...
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  • and theologian, becomes archbishop of Canterbury in England, succeeding Lanfranc. The post of archbishop has been left vacant since 1089 by King William...
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