- Thiofrid of Echternach
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Theofrid ."Thiofrid [Theofried, Thiofridus Epternacensis or Efternacensis, Theofridus, Théofroy.] (died 1110) was theBenedictine abbot ofEchternach Abbey , and writer of works in several different areas. He is one of the few medieval writers to discuss the cult ofrelics , in his "Flores epytaphii sanctorum" [Chris Lewis, Simon Barton, "IV Central Middle Ages" Annual Bulletin of Historical Literature (1997) 81 (1), pp. 22–36.] .He wrote on
Willibrord [http://www.willibrord.lu/spip.php?article45, http://utopia.knoware.nl/users/ikedl/chant/ike/saints/Willibrordus_st.htm] ; in connection with the link betweenWalcheren , where a church was dedicated to Willibrord, and Echternach, Thiofrid c. 1067 travelled toFrisia to mediate between the inhabitants and a son ofBaldwin of Flanders [Elizabeth van Houts, "Herward and Flanders", p. 206, in Michael Lapidge (editor), "Anglo-Saxon England" (2000), .] .References
*Hans-Joachim Reischmann (editor and translator) (1989), "Willibrord, Apostel der Friesen: Seine Vita nach Alkuin und Thiofrid"
*Gernot Wieland, "The Hermeneutic Style of Thiofrid of Echternach", pp. 27-45, in Sian Echard and Gernot R. Wieland (editors), "Anglo-Latin and its Heritage: Essays in Honour of A.G. Rigg on his 64th Birthday" (2001)
*Michele Ferrari, "Gold und Asche. Reliquie und Reliquiare als Medien in Thiofrid von Echternachs ‘Flores epytaphii sanctorum’", pp. 61-74. in Bruno Reudenbach and Gia Toussaint (editors) "Reliquiare im Mittelalter" (2005)Notes
External links
*de icon [http://www.bautz.de/bbkl/t/thiofrid.shtml BBK page]
*de icon [http://de.wikisource.org/wiki/ADB:Theofried ADB entry]
*nl icon [http://www.ru.nl/ahc/vg/html/vg000122.htm Article]
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