Dec 25, 2009

The Oxford Companion to English Literature | Abbo of Fleury

Abbo of Fleury ( ?945 – 1004 ),
a French theologian, author of the Epitome de Vitis Romanorum Pontificum and of lives of the saints. He was invited to England by Oswald (bishop of Worcester and archbishop of York) to teach in his monastery of Ramsey; it was at the request of the monks of Ramsey, he tells us, that Abbo wrote his ‘Life of St Edmund’ which was the source for Ælfric 's famous sermon. Abbo became abbot of Fleury where he died; during his abbacy Aristotle 's Categories was commented on and his Analytics copied in Fleury.