- Adelmann
Adelmann (died c. 1061) was the
bishop of Brescia , in Northern Italy, during the eleventh century. Adelmann seems to have become bishop there in 1050, and to have taken an active share in the church-reform movement of the period, especially against the clerical abuses ofsimony andconcubinage .Of unknown parentage and nationality [Known as Adelmann of
Liège , Adelmannus Leodiensis.] , he was educated at the famousSchool of Chartres , inFrance , founded byFulbert , and was considered one of his favourite scholars. Among his fellow students wasBerengarius , to whom, at a later period, he addressed two letters. The second (incomplete) letter ["Patrologia Latina ", CXLIII, 1289.] is a valuable dogmatic exposition of the teaching of the Church on the Eucharist [Epist. de Eucharistiae Sacramento.] ; theBenedictine editors of the "Histoire littéraire de la France" call it "one of the finest literary documents of the period." It breathes a tender affection for Berengarius, the friend of the writer's youth.Calvin called him "barbarus, imperitus, et sophista."Notes
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