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Alberic, of Monte Cassino, approximately 1030-approximately 1105

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Personal name headingAlberic, of Monte Cassino, approximately 1030-approximately 1105
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Variant(s)Albericus, monk of Monte Cassino, approximately 1030-approximately 1105
Alberich, von Montecassino, approximately 1030-approximately 1105
Albericus, Casinensis, approximately 1030-approximately 1105
Associated countryItaly
Birth date1030?
Death date1105?
Place of birthBenevento (Italy : Province)
AffiliationBenedictines
Montecassino (Monastery)
Special noteNot the same as: Alberic, of Settefrati, 1101-1154?
Found inLC database, April 24, 1998 (hdg.: Albericus, monk of Monte Cassino, 12th cent.)
Radding, Charles M. Theology, rhetoric, and politics in the Eucharistic controversy : Alberic of Monte Cassino against Berengar of Tours, 1078-1079, 2003: CIP galley (Alberic of Monte Cassino, a monk) book title page (Alberic of Monte Cassino) page 47 (Alberic of Monte Cassino, a monk and the most eminent scholar of the arts in his day in central or southern Italy; he was a native of the ancient duchy of Benevento; Radding identifies Alberic, who is best known for his tract on rhetoric (De dictamine), as the author of a tract opposing the teaching of Berengar of Tours on the Eucharist; this tract is dated to 1078/1079)
New Catholic encyclopedia. Second edition, 2003: volume 6, page 123 (under Gelasius II, Pope: Alberic of Monte Cassino; he was the teacher of John of Gaeta, who subsequently became Pope Gelasius II; John of Gaeta entered the Abbey of Monte Cassino as an oblate sometime around 1060)
The Medieval art of letter writing website, viewed November 10, 2004 (the ars dictaminis, developed in the eleventh century at the ancient Benedictine abbey of Monte Cassino; Ludwig Rockinger argued that the ars dictaminis was invented at Monte Cassino by Alberic of Monte Cassino (died 1105))
Corpus Scriptorum Latinorum (CSL) website, viewed March 10, 2021 (Albericus Casinensis; also known as Alberic of Monte Cassino; died January 26, 1109; author of De dictamine)
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Vatican Film Library, 22nd Annual Saint Louis Conference on Manuscript Studies website, viewed November 10, 2004 (Alberic of Monte Cassino, 11th/12th century)
German Wikipedia, viewed March 10, 2021 (Alberich von Montecassino; born circa 1030 near Benevento; died sometime after 1105; he became a monk of the Abbey of Montecassino no later than 1065; he wrote theological tracts and tracts on proper writing style (ars dictaminis); some sources state that he was made a cardinal, but there is no contemporary evidence to support this statement)
Personennamen des Mittelalters. 2. Auflage, 2000: page 27 (Albericus, Casinensis; born circa 1030; died circa 1105; author of a tract on the ars dictaminis)
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