Adelard of Ghent

Adelard of Ghent was an early 11th-century monk and hagiographer from the Benedictine monastery Saint Peter's Abbey, Ghent, now in modern-day Belgium.

He was commissioned by Archbishop Ælfheah of Canterbury to produce a piece of hagiography on Saint Dunstan. Sometime between 1006 and 1011, Adelard composed a series of twelve lections to be used as liturgy for the office of matins on the feast-day of St Dunstan (19 May) for Ælfheah. Adelard wrote the lections at his home monastery at St Peter's.

Print editions Edition and translation by Michael Winterbottom and Michael Lapidge, The Early Lives of St Dunstan, Oxford University Press, 2012. Previously edited by William Stubbs in Memorials of St Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury. Rolls Series 63. London, 1874. 53–68.