Eadmer

Depiction of Eadmer from the mid-12th century

Eadmer , also Edmer or Ediner (* around 1060; † January 13 (?) After 1128) was an English Benedictine , theologian and chronicler in the Middle Ages.

Life

Eadmer was accepted into the Christ Church convent in Canterbury as a child and became a monk there . There he met Anselm of Canterbury when he was visiting Christ Church from his Le Bec Abbey . That relationship developed into friendship when Anselm was elected Archbishop of Canterbury . In 1120 Eadmer was appointed Archbishop of St Andrews , but was not recognized there and returned to his monastery. He is one of the first exponents of the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception of Mary . His work De Excellentia Virginis Mariae is quoted in the encyclical Ad Diem Illum , dedicated to the Immaculate Conception .

Works

Historia Novorum in Anglia (History of the Archbishops Lanfrank , Anselm and Radulf of Canterbury), ed. v. Joh. Selden, London 1623; new edition v. M. Rule, ibid. 1884
Eadmer, The Life of St Anselm, Archbishop of Canterbury , ed. v. Richard W. Southern (Oxford Medieval Texts). Ndr. Oxford 1996.
Vita of Bergwin von Canterbury, Oswald von York, Odo von Canterbury , in: AS Aug. V u. July II
Vita of Wilfrid v. York , in: J. Raine, The Historians of the Church of York I, 1819
Tractatus de Conceptione S. Mariae , new ed. v. Herbert Thunston et al. Thomas Slater, 1904

literature

Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz : Eadmer (Edmer, Ediner). In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 1, Bautz, Hamm 1975. 2nd, unchanged edition Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-013-1 , Sp. 1437. ( Article / beginning of article in the Internet archive )
Bernd Goebel: Eadmer of Canterbury. In: Ders .: In the vicinity of Anselm. Biographical and bibliographical portraits of authors from Le Bec and Canterbury (= Fuldaer Hochschulschriften. Vol. 60). Echter, Würzburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-429-04381-0 , pp. 31-67.
Richard W. Southern, Saint Anselm and his Biographer. A Study of Monastic Life and Thought; 1059 - c.1130 , Cambridge 1963.

Web links

Literature by and about Eadmer in the catalog of the German National Library
Works by and about Eadmer in the German Digital Library

Individual evidence

↑ Andrew J. Turner / Bernard J. Muir (eds.), Eadmer of Canterbury, Lives and Miracles of Saints Oda, Dunstan, and Oswald, Oxford 2006.

personal data
SURNAME	Eadmer
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	English Benedictine, theologian and chronicler in the Middle Ages
DATE OF BIRTH	around 1060
DATE OF DEATH	after 1128

[1] Andrew J. Turner / Bernard J. Muir (eds.), Eadmer of Canterbury, Lives and Miracles of Saints Oda, Dunstan, and Oswald, Oxford 2006.