Abbot of Eynsham Aelfric
English abbot and prolific writer in Old English of hagiography, homilies and biblical commentaries
- Lived
- 950–1010
- Country
- England
Updated September 2026
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About Abbot of Eynsham Aelfric
Ælfric of Eynsham was an English abbot and a student of Æthelwold of Winchester, and a consummate, prolific writer in Old English of hagiography, homilies, biblical commentaries, and other genres of Christian literature. He is also known variously as Ælfric the Grammarian, Ælfric of Cerne, and Ælfric the Homilist. In the view of Peter Hunter Blair, he was "a man comparable both in the quantity of his writings and in the quality of his mind even with Bede himself". According to Claudio Leonardi, he "represented the highest pinnacle of Benedictine reform and Anglo-Saxon literature".
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