- Eberhard of Béthune
Eberhard of Béthune (also known as Everard of Béthune, Évrard de Béthune, Éverard de Béthune, Ebrardus Bethuniensis or Bithuniensis, Eberhardus Bethuniensis, Eberard, Ebrard, Ebrad; d. c. 1212) [cite web|title=Liste lateinischer Autoren und anonymer Werke des 13. Jahrhunderts (ca. 1170–1320)|work=MGH Poetae|author=Peter Christian Jacobsen|date=2002|location=Erlangen|language=German|url=http://www.mgh.de/~Poetae/Autorenliste/AutorenE.htm] was a Flemish [cite encyclopedia|encyclopedia=Christian Cyclopedia|editor=Erwin L. Lueker, Luther Poellot, and Paul Jackson|publisher=Concordia Publishing House|date=2000|article=Eberhard(t) of Béthune|url=http://www.lcms.org/ca/www/cyclopedia/02/display.asp?t1=E&word=EBERHARDTOFBETHUNE] grammarian of the early thirteenth century, from
Arras . He was the author of "Graecismus", a popular Latin grammatical poem, dated to c. 1212. [cite encyclopedia|encyclopedia=Oxford English Dictionary |article=poetry|publisher=Oxford University Press|url=http://www.altx.com/EBR/reviews/rev11/gillespie/poetry.htm] The name came from a short section on theGreek language . [cite web|title=The Age of Erasmus|author=P. S. Allen|work=Project Gutenberg|date=2005-05-10 |url=http://www.gutenberg.org/files/15810/15810-h/15810-h.htm|quote=Its name, Graecismus, was based upon a chapter, the eighth, devoted to the elementary study of Greek.] His "Laborintus" is "an elaborate and critical treatise on poetry and pedagogics"; [cite book|title=Mazes and Labyrinths|author=W. H. Matthews|publisher=Dover Publications|date=1970-06-01 |id=ISBN 048622614X|chapter=XXII. The Labyrinth in Literature|chapterurl=http://www.sacred-texts.com/etc/ml/ml25.htm] it is also known as "De Miseriis Rectorum Scholarum".He was also actively engaged against the
Waldensians , [cite journal|journal=Peace Research|volume=36|issue=2|date=November 2004|pages=7|title=Peacemaking Principles drawn from Opposition to the Crusades (1095–1276)|author=John Derkesen|url=http://io.uwinnipeg.ca/~msc/downloads/MSC_research-derksen1.pdf|format=PDF] and wrote a book "Antihaeresis" against them. He is cited in "Foxe's Book of Martyrs " as to the etymology of the name. [cite book|author=John Foxe|title=Foxe's Book of Martyrs|publisher=|date=1563|chapter=POPE ALEXANDER III AND THE WALDENSES|chapterurl=http://www.exclassics.com/foxe/foxe43.htm]References
*Anne Grondeux (2001), "Le Graecismus d'Évrard de Béthune à travers ses gloses"
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