. . "Ethelmaer, Elmer, or Aelmer (died 1137), also called Herlewin, was an English ascetic writer. Ethelmaer was made prior of Christ Church, Canterbury, in 1128, and is said to have been a man of great piety and simplicity. His simplicity led him to take the part of Archbishop in a dispute he had with the convent in 1136 about the church of St. Martin at Dover. He died 11 May 1137."@en . . . . . . . . "1666"^^ . . . . "Herlewin"@en . . . . "Ethelmaer, Elmer, or Aelmer (died 1137), also called Herlewin, was an English ascetic writer. Ethelmaer was made prior of Christ Church, Canterbury, in 1128, and is said to have been a man of great piety and simplicity. His simplicity led him to take the part of Archbishop in a dispute he had with the convent in 1136 about the church of St. Martin at Dover. He died 11 May 1137. The name Elmer is evidently a corruption of the old English name \u00C6thelm\u00E6r. Leland saw two works by him, a book of homilies and a treatise, \u2018De exercitiis spiritualis vit\u00E6.\u2019 The report on the Cottonian Library has under Otho A. xii. \u2018\u00C6lmeri monachi ecclesi\u00E6 Christi Cantuariensis epistol\u00E6, in quibus tractat de munditia cordis, . . . et querimonia de absentia metus Dei. Liber asceticus et vere pius;\u2019 100 f. This manuscript was almost entirely destroyed by the fire of 10 July 1865; the few charred fragments that remain form the seventh portion of a volume, marked as above, which begins with some fragments of a manuscript of Asser, the only contents noticed in the Museum catalogue. Another copy is in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge, Gale MS. O. 10, 16 (Wright). The titles of other works are given by Bale."@en . "31013361"^^ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "1024222976"^^ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .