Renier of Saint-LaurentReiner, Reinerus monachus S. Laurentii Leodiensis, Reinierus Leodiensis, Rainerus. (died 1188) was a twelfth-century Benedictine monk of , Liège. He is known as a writer of theological and exegetical works,Miri Rubin, Corpus Christi: The Eucharist in Late Medieval Culture (1991), p. 165. controversial and historical works, and numerous biographical and hagiographical works.Leah Shopkow (translator), The History of the Counts of Guines and Lords of Ardres by Lambert of Ardres (2007), p. 206. Works by him are in Patrologia Latina and Monumenta Germaniae Historica.
The Triumphale BulonicumIn Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Scriptores, t. XX; Patrologia Latina 204. is a chronicle and commemorates the siege of Bouillon Castle by Albero, prince-bishop of Liège, 17 August to 22 September 1141.André Joris (editor), Villes: affaires-mentalités : autour du pays mosan (1993), p. 396. It is based on eye-witness accounts.http://perso.infonie.be/liege06/06six.htm , in French.
References Hubert Silvestre, Notes sur la "Vita Evracli" de Renier de Saint-Laurent. Contribution à l'histoire littéraire du XIIe siècle Liégeois, Revue d'histoire ecclésiastique, XLIV (1949), pp. 29–86 Hubert Silvestre, Renier de St.-Laurent et le déclin des écoles liégeoises au XIIe siècle, Miscellanea Tornacensia. Mélanges d'archéologie et d'hist. Congrès de Tournai 1949 (Bruxelles 1951), pp. 112–123 David Foote, Taming monastic advocates and redeeming bishops: the Triumphale and episcopal vitae of Reiner of St. Lawrence, Revue d'histoire ecclésiastique 91 (1996) Article "Reiner von Lüttich", col. 1165 in Die deutsche Literatur des Mittelalters: Verfasserlexikon (2006), by Wolfgang Stammler, Karl Langosch, Kurt Ruh
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