Arnold Scholasticus was an 11th century monk of the Benedictine abbey of

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(

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). He served the community as

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, and

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, considerably enhancing the reputation of the

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and the

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. He was the author of ''Qualiter corpus beati Stephani de Ierosolimis Constantinopolim sit translatum, xix kal. ianuarii'', a reworking of a text by

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on the

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of the remains of

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from

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. He also painted animals in imitation of Roman mosaic in the apse of the abbey church.A. Lambert, "Arnold Scholasticus", ''Dictionnaire d'histoire et de géographie ecclésiastiques'', vol. 4 (Paris, 1930), 572-573.

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