 "The Independent on Saturday (South Africa)")
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All eyes looking up-country for 50th anniversary of the Vaal Challenge.(Sports)
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AN unprecedented interest in this year's Vaal Challenge Canoe Marathon has seen entries for the 50th anniversary of the race double to more than 500 paddlers, with title-holders Michael Mbanjwa and Len Jenkins having to overcome the strongest field imaginable if they are to win the two-day race again this weekend.
The Vaal Challenge will mark only their first major outing since the Dusi in January and they are going to have to be at their best in what are expected to be excellent racing conditions, thanks to generous water releases from both the Vaal Dam and the ...
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Death of St Anselm: Apr 21 1109.(MONTHS PAST)
Magazine article from: History Today
; ...written by his pupil and close friend Eadmer, a monk of Christ Church, Canterbury...had to be carried about in a litter. Eadmer had been writing his life of the archbishop...what he was doing. At first he helped Eadmer with it, but on reflection he insisted...
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Whose Tapestry is it anyway? Andrew Bridgeford argues that we have failed to appreciate the ingenuity and complexity of the story depicted by the Bayeux Tapestry.(Frontline)
Magazine article from: History Today
; ...however, an English monk in Canterbury, Eadmer, recorded his own brief history of these same events. According to Eadmer, King Edward was not (at this stage...same story as that put in writing by Eadmer of Canterbury: there are subtle pictorial...
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A letter to Anselm.(Faith MATTERS)(Anselm of Canterbury, Saint)
Magazine article from: The Christian Century
; ...prized. We know you ordered your friend Eadmer to destroy the parchment quires on which...into oblivion. But, thank goodness, Eadmer honored your wish in letter only, making...the deception. I hope you've forgiven Eadmer by now, and I hope he has forgiven you...
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 "Weekend Edition - Saturday (NPR)")
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The 800-year old Canterbury Cathedral was built on top of an old Saxon...
Transcript from: Weekend Edition - Saturday (NPR)
; ...confirmed the writings of a 12th century English monk. Eadmer [sp] the singer wrote that the ruins of an old...thought it was old foundations. STAMBERG: But Eadmer knew, didn't he? Eadmer the singer. Prof. BIDDLE: Yes, yes he knew...
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FINDING THE FEMININE IN THE DIVINE: ST. ANSELM'S PRAYERS AND MEDITATIONS AND WOMEN
Magazine article from: Magistra
; Eadmer, biographer of St. Anselm, once observed that the common people of Rome...solitary life at Bec. To a certain extent, Anselm was all of these things, but Eadmer's observations suggest that Anselm perceived himself, as did his followers...
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Saint Anselm: A Portrait in a Landscape.
Magazine article from: Theological Studies
; ...of his words and letters, and his most important disciple, Eadmer, author of the Life. A substantial appendix seeks to unravel...the twelfth century and afterwards. The many pages devoted to Eadmer might have been put in an appendix so as to allow room for discussion...
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George Garnett, Conquered England: Kingship, Succession, and Tenure 1066-1166.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Medium Aevum
; ...heart of each succession and interregnum: what happens to tenure when there is no king? Garnett shows how chroniclers such as Eadmer believed that this situation must have arisen from practice in Normandy -and that they were wrong; it was in the unique...
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God and the Normans. (Letters).(Letter to the Editor)
Magazine article from: History Today
; ...in a nun's habit is ironic in the context of an article discussing Norman religious observance. The purpose, according to Eadmer in his Historia Novorum (pp 121-26), where he claims to quote Matilda's own words, was to save their bodies `from the...
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Kimberly A. LoPrete, Adela of Blois: Countess and Lord (c.1067-1137).(Book review)
Magazine article from: Medium Aevum
; ...recounted by many of the most important authors of the early twelfth century, including figures such as Guibert de Nogent, Eadmer, William of Malmesbury, and Ordericus Vitalis. In tracing Adela's activity Kimberly A. LoPrete follows a largely biographical...
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Pope's "Windsor-Forest".(18th-century British poet Alexander Pope)(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: The Explicator
; ...s "Prey was Man" (62) of the homosexuality for which Rufus and his reign (to which the passage moves) were famous. Eadmer records Anselm forthrightly telling the king that without speedy intervention "the whole land will, I declare, become little...
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