biography
pronunciation:
[mabeeyõ]
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| lived:
| (1632–1707)
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| biography:
| Scholar and historian, born in Saint-Pierremont, N France. A Benedictine monk (1654), he was summoned in 1664 to the abbaye de St-Germain-des-Prés in Paris to work on the editing and the presentation of the Acta Sanctorum Ordinis of Saint Benedict (1667). His research for De Re Diplomatica Libri (1681, 1704), led him to travel throughout the whole of N Europe and Italy. This work founded Latin palaeography, the science fundamental to diplomatics. He edited St Bernard's works (1667) and wrote a history of his order (9 vols, 1668–1702). He vigorously defended the principle of monastic study in his Traité des études monastiques (1691) in a dispute with de Rancé, the abbot of La Trappe. In 1701 he was made a member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres. |
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