> Having done my first graduate paper on Bernard Gui, I was underimpressed > by Eco's depiction of him. Other problems in Name of the Rose include > all the Italians being town dwellers and the abbot expressing views to be > found in Suger's writings 2 centuries later. > > tom izbicki Are you quite sure about dating Suger's writings two centuries later than Gui? I had recognised Eco's borrowings but they did not strike me as anachronistic. Sophie Oosterwijk %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%