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]

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Notes

  1. Reiner, Reinerus monachus S. Laurentii Leodiensis, Reinierus Leodiensis, Rainerus.
  2. Miri Rubin, Corpus Christi: The Eucharist in Late Medieval Culture (1991), p. 165.
  3. Leah Shopkow (translator), The History of the Counts of Guines and Lords of Ardres By Lambert of Ardres (2007), p. 206.
  4. In Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Scriptores, t. XX; Patrologia Latina 204.
  5. André Joris (editor), Villes: affaires-mentalités : autour du pays mosan (1993), p. 396.
  6. http://perso.infonie.be/liege06/06six.htm, in French.

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