Table of Contents

1: Early Life
2: Monk and Abbot
3: Service outside the Cloister c.1042-1070
4: Scholar and Teacher
5: Retrospect
6: The Move to Canterbury
7: The Primacy of Canterbury
8: The Church of Canterbury
9: The Ordering of the English Church
10: The Wider Primacy
11: The Monastic Order
12: Lanfranc and the English
13: Lanfranc and King William I
14: Lanfranc and the Gregorian Papacy
15: External Concerns
16: The Last Years
17: Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

H. E. J. Cowdrey is Emeritus Fellow, St. Edmund Hall, Oxford.

Reviews

...a very comprehensive study that focuses on all the major aspects on Lanfranc's contribution. Studia Historiae Ecclesiasticae ... the rich colour of recent research, major elements of it Cowdrey's own, shines out in this portrait. It is a work which presents, in the final analysis, a deeply erudite, sensitive, elegant, and largely convincing interpretation of its subject that brings Lanfranc compellingly to life. It significantly enhances our understanding of him and the Anglo-Norman and wider European ecclesiastical and secular landscape in which he moved. History A major strength of the book is its contextualization of Lanfranc's life. Cowdrey's portrait of Lanfranc is 'in a landscape', and one that is rich and varied. History [Cowdrey] provides a careful and exact account of this powerful, conventional churchman. Robert Bartlett, Times Literary Supplement ...an outstanding book which will be the standard work for years to come. The English Historical Review.