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EADMER, or EDMER (c. 1o6o-c. 1124)

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 789 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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EADMER, or EDMER (c. 1o6o-c. 1124)  , See also:English historian and ecclesiastic, was probably, as his name suggests, of English, and not of See also:Norman parentage . He became a See also:monk in the See also:Benedictine monastery of See also:Christ See also:Church, See also:Canterbury, where he made the acquaintance of See also:Anselm, at that See also:time visiting See also:England as See also:abbot of See also:Bee . The intimacy was renewed when Anselm became See also:archbishop of Canterbury in 1093; thence-forward See also:Eadmer was not only his See also:disciple and follower, but his friend and director, being formally appointed to this position by See also:Pope See also:Urban II . In 1120 he was nominated to the See also:arch-bishopric of St See also:Andrews, but as the Scots would not recognize the authority of the see of Canterbury he was never consecrated, and soon afterwards he resigned his claim to the archbishopric . His See also:death is generally assigned to the See also:year 1124 . Eadmer See also:left a large number of writings, the most important of which is his Historiae novorum, a See also:work which deals mainly with the See also:history of England between 1066 and 1122 . Although concerned principally with ecclesiastical affairs scholars agree in regarding the Historiae as one of the ablest and most valuable writings of its See also:kind . It was first edited by See also:John See also:Selden in 1623 and, with Eadmer's Vita Anselmi, has been edited by See also:Martin See also:Rule for the " Rolls See also:Series " (See also:London, 1884) . The Vita Anselmi, first printed at See also:Antwerp in 1551, is probably the best See also:life of the See also:saint . Less noteworthy are Eadmer's lives of St See also:Dunstan, St Bregwin, archbishop of Canterbury, and St See also:Oswald, archbishop of See also:York; these are all printed in See also:Henry See also:Wharton's Anglia Sacra, See also:part ii . (1691), where a See also:list of Eadmer's writings will be found . The See also:manuscripts of most of Eadmer's See also:works are preserved in the library of Corpus Christi See also:College, See also:Cambridge .

See M . Rule, On Eadmer's Elaboration of the first four Books of Historiae novorum " (1886) ; and Pere Ragey, Eadmer (See also:

Paris, 1892) .

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