BERENGAR OF TOURS (c. 1000–1088), rector of the schools of Saint-Martin in Tours and sometime archdeacon of Angers. Berengar was at the center of a eucharistic controversy in his own day and subsequently lent his name to a cluster of positions...

(ca. 1000–1088). Born at Tours, Berengar studied at Chartres under Fulbert and returned to Tours to become scholasticus at Saint-Martin’s in 1031 and archdeacon of Angers in 1041. During and after his studies, Berengar displayed a penchant...

Berengar of Tours (c. 999–January 6, 1088) was a French 11th century Christian theologian, a scholar whose leadership of the cathedral school at Chartres set an example of intellectual inquiry through the revived tools of dialectic that was soon...

Theology, Rhetoric, and Politics in the Eucharistic Controversy, 1078-1079: Alberic of Monte Cassino against Berengar of Tours. By Charles M. Radding and Francis Newton. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003. xi + 197 pp. $19.50 paper. The eucharistic controversy surrounding the French...

Theology, Rhetoric, and Politics in the Eucharistic Controversy, 1078-1079: Alberic of Monte Cassino Against Berengar of Tours. By Charles M. Radding and Francis Newton. (New York: Columbia University Press. 2003. Pp. xiv, 197. $49.50 clothbound; $18.50 paperback.) This book is a valuable contribution...