@inbook{10.7722/j.ctt5vj7zd.11, ISBN = {9781843839316}, URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7722/j.ctt5vj7zd.11}, abstract = {At some point during the 1070s the archbishop of Canterbury, Lanfranc, wrote to Herfast (bishop of East Anglia 1070–84/5) in trenchant terms. Much of his letter criticized the bishop’s lifestyle – ‘Give up the dicing (to mention nothing worse) and the world’s amusements in which you are said to idle away the entire day’ – and the company he kept: ‘Banish the monk Hermann, whose life is notorious for its many faults, from your society and your household completely.’ Instead, Lanfranc told his bishop to read Scripture and above all to master the decrees of the Roman pontiffs and}, author = {Sarah Foot}, booktitle = {Bury St Edmunds and the Norman Conquest}, edition = {NED - New edition}, pages = {31--52}, publisher = {Boydell and Brewer}, title = {THE ABBEY’S ARMOURY OF CHARTERS}, year = {2014} }