Adelmann (, , , , ; ?, – c. 1061,
Brescia
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) was the
bishop of Brescia
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and
concubinage
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.
Of unknown parentage and nationality, he was educated at the famous
School of Chartres
During the High Middle Ages, the Chartres Cathedral established the cathedral School of Chartres, an important center of French scholarship located in Chartres. It developed and reached its apex during the transitional period of the 11th and 12 ...
, in France, founded by
Fulbert, and was considered one of his favourite scholars. Among his fellow students was
Berengarius, to whom, at a later period, he addressed two letters. The second (incomplete) letter is a dogmatic exposition of Christian teaching on the Eucharist;
[Epist. de Eucharistiae Sacramento.] the
Benedictine
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editors of the call it "one of the finest literary documents of the period."
Calvin called him
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Year of birth unknown
1061 deaths
11th-century Italian Roman Catholic bishops
Bishops of Brescia
Clergy from the Prince-Bishopric of Liège
11th-century clergy from the Holy Roman Empire
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