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.Winterbottom and Lapidge, Early Lives of St Dunstan, p. 54, cxxv
He was commissioned by Archbishop Ælfheah of Canterbury to produce a piece of hagiography on Saint Dunstan.Winterbottom and Lapidge, Early Lives of St Dunstan, p. 54 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.Winterbottom and Lapidge, Early Lives of St Dunstan, p. 54, cxxv Adelard wrote the lections at his home monastery at St Peter's.Grierson, The relations, p. 87
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.
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