# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lfric-of-eynsham
# Generated: 2026-08-14T21:15:55.816Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lfric-of-eynsham"
name: "Ælfric of Eynsham"
slug: "lfric-of-eynsham"
description: "Ælfric of Eynsham was an English abbot and a student of Æthelwold of Winchester, and a consummate, prolific writer in Old English of hagiography, homilies, biblical commentaries, and other genres of Christian literature. He is also known variously as Ælfric the Grammarian, Ælfric of Cerne, and Ælfric the Homilist. In the view of Peter Hunter Blair, he was \"a man comparable both in the quantity of his writings and in the quality of his mind even with Bede himself\". According to Claudio Leonardi, he \"represented the highest pinnacle of Benedictine reform and Anglo-Saxon literature\"."
tagline: "English abbot and prolific writer in Old English of hagiography, homilies and biblical commentaries (c.955-c.1010)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Meister_der_Paraphrasen_des_Pentateuch_001.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "950"
deathDate: "1010"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.88
  momentum:             0
  historical:           16.53938666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%86lfric_of_Eynsham"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump