Adelard of Ghent explained

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 Ælfheah of Canterbury to produce a piece of hagiography on Saint Dunstan.^[2] Sometime between 1006 and 1011, Adelard composed a series of twelve lections to be used as liturgy for the office of matins on the 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

• Edition and translation by Michael Winterbottom and Michael Lapidge, The Early Lives of St Dunstan, Oxford University Press, 2012.
• Previously edited by William Stubbs in Memorials of St Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury. Rolls Series 63. London, 1874. 53–68.

References

• Book: Richard Sharpe (historian)

. Sharpe, Richard . Richard Sharpe (historian) . A Handlist of the Latin Writers of Great Britain and Ireland Before 1540 . Brepols . Belgium . Publications of the Journal of Medieval Latin . 1 . 2001 revised . 2001 . 2-503-50575-9.

• Book: Winterbotton . Michael . Lapidge . Michael . The Early Lives of Saint Dunstan . 2012 . Clarendon Press . Oxford . 9780199605040.
• Grierson . Philip . Southern . R.W. . The Relations Between England and Flanders before the Norman Conquest . Essays in Medieval History . 1968 . 61–92 . London.

Notes and References

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