Eadmer

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

He was already included as a child in Christchurch monastery in Canterbury, where he became a monk. There he learned Anselm of Canterbury know, as this visitierte of his abbey Le Bec from the monastery of Christchurch. This relationship developed when Anselm was elected Archbishop of Canterbury, to friendship. 1120 Eadmer was appointed Archbishop of St Andrews, but he was not recognized there and returned to his monastery. He is one of the first advocates of the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception of Mary. His work De Virginis Mariae Excellentia is in the Immaculate Conception dedicated encyclical Ad Diem Illum quoted.

Works

• Historia Novorum in Anglia ( History of the Archbishops Lanfranc, Anselm and Radulf of Canterbury ), ed. v. John Selden, London 1623; new edition v. M. Rule, ibid 1884
• De Vita et conversatione Anselmi archiepiscopi Cantuariae, in: Monumenta Historica Germaniae SS XIII, 140 ff
• Life of Bergwin of Canterbury, Oswald of York, Odo of Canterbury, in: AS Aug. V and II July
• Life 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 and Thomas Slater, 1904