Adelard of Ghent

Source: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Adelard of Ghent was an early 11th-century monk and hagiographer from the

Benedictine monastery Saint Peter's Abbey, Ghent, now in modern-day Belgium.[1]

He was commissioned by Archbishop

feast-day of St Dunstan (19 May) for Ælfheah.[3] Adelard wrote the lections at his home monastery at St Peter's.[4]

Print editions

Citations

  1. ^ Winterbottom and Lapidge, Early Lives of St Dunstan, p. 54, cxxv
  2. ^ Winterbottom and Lapidge, Early Lives of St Dunstan, p. 54
  3. ^ Winterbottom and Lapidge, Early Lives of St Dunstan, p. 54, cxxv
  4. ^ Grierson, The relations, p. 87

References

  • .
  • Winterbotton, Michael; Lapidge, Michael (2012). The Early Lives of Saint Dunstan. Oxford: Clarendon Press. .
  • Grierson, Philip (1968). Southern, R.W. (ed.). "The Relations Between England and Flanders before the Norman Conquest". Essays in Medieval History. London: 61–92.