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.[1]
He was commissioned by Archbishop Ælfheah of Canterbury to produce a piece of hagiography on Saint Dunstan.[2] 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.[3] Adelard wrote the lections at his home monastery at St Peter's.[4]
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.