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Eadmer or Edmer , d. 1124?, English monk and historian. He was in the monastery of Christ Church, Canterbury, when Anselm became archbishop of Canterbury, and his biography of St. Anselm is the basic one. Eadmer's Historiae novorum is a history of England from 1066 to 1122 from the ecclesiastical point of view and is excellent of its kind. He was elected archbishop of St. Andrews, but was never consecrated because the Scots refused to accept the spiritual authority of Canterbury.

Bibliography: See R. W. Southern, St. Anselm and His Biographer (1963).

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Eadmer (d. ?1124), a monk of Canterbury who wrote a Latin chronicle of the events of his own time down to 1122, Historia Novorum in Anglia, a biography of his friend and leader Anselm, and an early Marian work, the Liber de Excellentia Beatae Mariae.

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Eadmer (c.1060–c.1128), English historian and theologian. He was a member of the household of St Anselm. He wrote Lives of Anselm and other English saints (including Wilfrid and Dunstan), a history of England covering the period from c.1066 to c.1122, and a treatise defending the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception of the BVM, formerly attributed to Anselm.

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