Lawrence of Durham

Lawrence of Durham (English Lawrence of Durham, Latin Laurentius Dunelmensis ), ( * 1110/1114 in Waltham Abbey, † 1154 in France ) was an English Benedictine monk and Middle Latin poet and Bishop of Durham. He was a theological student of Hugh of Saint Victor.

He stepped around 1128 in the northern English monastery of Durham and was 1147/1149 which Prior In 1153 he became Bishop of Durham. On the way back from its consecration in Rome, he died in 1154 in France.

Works

• Vita Sancta Brigide ( prose biography of St. Brigida of Kildare )
• Hypognosticon ( Biblical episodes in Latin verse for a courtly audience)
• Consolatio de morte amici ( a prose dialogue with Latin verses on Boethius Consolation Philosophiae ajar )
• Dialogi (1101 couplets in four books describe the civil war- like conditions in Durham under the episcopal usurper William Cumin )