Renier of St Laurent
Renier of St Laurent[1] (died 1188) was a twelfth-century Benedictine monk of St Laurent Abbey, Liège. He known as a writer, of theological and exegetical works,[2] controversial and historical works, and numerous biographical and hagiographical works.[3] Works by him are in Patrologia Latina and Monumenta Germaniae Historica.
The Triumphale Bulonicum[4] is a chronicle and commemorates the 1141 siege of the Château de Bouillon by Albéron II, the prince-bishop of Liège.[5] It is based on eye-witness accounts.[6]
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
Notes
- ↑ Reiner, Reinerus monachus S. Laurentii Leodiensis, Reinierus Leodiensis, Rainerus.
- ↑ Miri Rubin, Corpus Christi: The Eucharist in Late Medieval Culture (1991), p. 165.
- ↑ Leah Shopkow (translator), The History of the Counts of Guines and Lords of Ardres By Lambert of Ardres (2007), p. 206.
- ↑ In Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Scriptores, t. XX; Patrologia Latina 204.
- ↑ André Joris (editor), Villes: affaires-mentalités : autour du pays mosan (1993), p. 396.
- ↑ http://perso.infonie.be/liege06/06six.htm, in French.
External links
- (French) PDF
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