Lanfranco di Pavia e l'Europa del secolo XI (nel IX centenario della morte [1089-1989]). Atti del Convegno internazionale di studi (Pavia, Almo Collegio Borromeo, 21-24 settembre 1989), ed. by Giulio D'Onofrio (review)

526 BOOK REVIEWS do justice either to Newman's own nuanced interpretation or to so much as a line of Hadewijch or Marguerite Porete. Moreover, since these are separate studies , each based on a limited number of texts without overmuch attention to chronology or to social and institutional setting, there are occasional over-generalizations and omissions. As Newman herself admits at the opening ofchapter five, "beguinal mysticism" is sometimes used too broadly. The "atypical" and "marginal" (p. 135) become, not fully consistently, the "tip of the iceberg" (p. 136). Reading Heloise "as" a "mystic manquee" (this reviewer is always troubled by the sleight-of-hand permitted by current notions of "reading as") seems inappropriate not only because it projects thirteenth-century categories back into the twelfth but also because careful attention to what Newman actually argues shows that it is Abelard's Heloise not Heloise's Heloise who can be so read. Finally, one is surprised not to find Herbert Grundmann in the bibliography , since the interpretation of Newman's epilogue is surely (and rightly!) a return to his. Nonetheless, whatever is lost in textured background by Newman's focus on individual writings, her interpretations of the writings themselves are exquisite . From Virile Woman to WomanChrist should be required reading in every university-level Women's Studies course—for its method, its substance, and its prose. Caroline Walker Bynum Columbia University Lanfranco di Pavia e I'Europa del secólo XI (nel IX centenario délia morte [1089-1989]). Atti del Convegno internazionale di studi (Pavia,Almo CoIlegio Borromeo, 21-24 settembre 1989). Edited by Giulio D'Onofrio. [Italia Sacra: Studi e documenti di storia ecclesiastica, Vol. 51.] (Rome: Herder Editrice e Librería. 1993. Pp. xiv, 774. Lire 160,000 paperback.) Lanfranc, ofPavia, Bec, and Canterbury, the teacher of both St. Anselm and Ivo of Chartres, and archbishop of Canterbury under King William I, is neither an elusive nor an insignificant figure. Commemorating the nine hundredth anniversary of his death, the nearly eight hundred pages of scholarship published here—the "acta" from a Pavian conference held in 1989—is clear testimony to the interest which Lanfranc and his environment still generate among medievalists . The vast scope of his activity, in widely diverse localities and circumstances , is mirrored in the divisions and the specific contents of this collection of essays. The work is divided into six sections, treating general themes as follows : (i) Lanfranc and his century; (ii) From Pavia to the Abbey of Bee: Juridical studies and monastic discipline; (iii) Liberal arts, philosophy, and theology: Lanfranc and the culture of his century; (iv) The Berengarian controversy; (v) The Archbishop of Canterbury; and (vi) Master Lanfranc. The book continues with an appendix presenting an edition and commentary on the Vita Lanfranci by the late Margaret Gibson, and ends with a set of indices. BOOK REVIEWS 527 The following studies are found herein. Maria Teresa Fumagalli Beonio Brocchieri ,"Lanfranco di Pavia 'maestro dei nostri studi': cultura e filosofía nel secólo XI"; Margaret Gibson, "The Image of Lanfranc"; Aldo Angelo Settia, "Pavia capitale del 'Regnum' nel secólo XI"; Gian Paolo Massetto,"Gli studi di diritto nella Lombardia del secólo XI"; Reginald Grégoire,"Il diritto monástico elaborate nei 'Decreta' di Lanfranco";Mark Philpott,"Lanfranc's Canonical Collection and 'the Law of the Church'"; Marcel Baudot, "Maintenance du prestige de Lanfranc de Pavie au XIVe siècle à l'abbaye du Bec-Hellouin en Normandie"; Pierre Riche, "L'enseignement des arts libéraux en Italie et en France au XIe siècle";Inos Biffi, "Lanfranco esegeta di san Paolo"; Giulio d'Onofrio,"Lanfranco teólogo e la storia délia filosofía"; Dario Schioppetto,"Enciclopedia e Sacra pagina traVII e XII secólo"; Renato Borghi and Rodobaldo Tibaldi, "Lanfranco 'musicus'"; Stefano Maria Cingolani,"Normandia, Le Bec e gli esordi délia letteratura francese";Jean de Móntelos, "Lanfranc et Bérenger: Les origines de la doctrine de la Transsubstantiation "; Marta Cristiani,"Le 'ragioni' di Berengario di Tours"; André Cantin, "La position prise par Lanfranc sur le traitement des mystères de la foi par les raisons dialectiques"; Gillian R. Evans, "'Solummodo sacramentum et non verum': Issues of Logic and...