Adelard of Ghent

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.

He was commissioned by Archbishop Ælfheah of Canterbury to produce a piece of hagiography on Saint Dunstan. 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. Adelard wrote the lections at his home monastery at St Peter's.

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

• Sharpe, Richard (2001). A Handlist of the Latin Writers of Great Britain and Ireland Before 1540. Publications of the Journal of Medieval Latin. Vol. 1 (2001 revised ed.). Belgium: Brepols. ISBN 2-503-50575-9.
• Winterbotton, Michael; Lapidge, Michael (2012). The Early Lives of Saint Dunstan. Oxford: Clarendon Press. ISBN 9780199605040.
• Grierson, Philip (1968). Southern, R.W. (ed.). "The Relations Between England and Flanders before the Norman Conquest". Essays in Medieval History. London: 61–92.