Edmund of Abingdon

Edmund of Abingdon (also known as Edmund Rich, St Edmund of Canterbury, Edmund of Pontigny, French: St Edme; c. 1174 – 16 November 1240) was an English Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Canterbury. He became a respected lecturer in mathematics, dialectics and theology at the Universities of Paris and Oxford, promoting the study of Aristotle.

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  • Nou goth sonne under wode,—
    Me reweth, Marie, thi faire Rode.
    Nou goth sonne under tre,—
    Me reweth, Marie, thi sone and the.
    • "Sunset on Calvary" [Bodl. MS. Arch. Selden 74, f.55v], in Carleton Fairchild Brown (ed.), English Lyrics of the XIIIth Century (1932), p. 1
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