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Also Known As Eadmer
Born c.1060
Died c.1128 • Canterbury? • England?
Subjects Of Study Investiture Controversy • Canterbury • Christianity • monasticism
James Anthony Froude
British historian
Thomas Fuller, lithograph by C. Kell, 1874, after a portrait by an unknown artist, 1648
Thomas Fuller
English scholar, preacher, and author
A.N. Wilson
English writer
Sir Arthur Bryant
British historian
Francis Godwin, detail of an engraving by G. Vertue, derived from an earlier portrait, frontispiece to De Praesulibus Angliae, 1743
Francis Godwin
English bishop and historian
Hugh Paulin Cressy
English author and editor
Sir George Otto Trevelyan, 2nd Baronet
British historian
Francis Aidan Gasquet
British cardinal
Pope Gregory VII, after his expulsion from Rome, laying a ban of excommunication on the clergy “together with the raging king” (Henry IV of Germany), drawing from the 12th-century chronicle of Otto of Freising; in the library of the University of Jena, Germany.
St. Gregory VII
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St. Gregory the Great
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Bonaventura Berlinghieri: St. Francis and Scenes from His Life
St. Francis of Assisi
Italian saint
Adams, Henry
Henry Adams
American historian
Urban II
Urban II
pope
Adolf von Harnack
Adolf von Harnack
German theologian and church historian
Robert Caro
Robert Caro
American historian and author
N.F.S. Grundtvig
N.F.S. Grundtvig
Danish bishop and poet
David McCullough
David McCullough
American historian
Allan Nevins
American author
Sir Isaiah Berlin
British historian
A.L. Rowse
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