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About Paul Meyvaert
- Paul Meyvaert was a Benedictine monk who turned to medieval scholarship, and became a renowned scholar whose philological and historical work focused on medieval conceptions of authorship.
- Largely self-taught, he published on forgeries, iconography, and textual criticism.
- He taught at Duke University and in 1971 was appointed at Harvard University, where he spent the rest of his life.
- He was executive director of the Medieval Academy of America, and editor of Speculum, its journal. Meyvaert was born Jeffrey Meyvaert in the United Kingdom on November 12, 1921; his mother was British, his father, whom he barely knew, was Belgian.
- His mother was very religious; she raised him in England, Belgium, and Ireland, with an eye on his entering a religious vocation.
- When he entered the Order of Saint Benedict he adopted "Paul" as his first name.
- He lived mostly on the Isle of Wight in Quarr Abbey, and taught himself the skills necessary to become a scholar of medieval history.
- He published his first scholarly in 1955, and from then on published a series of articles that investigated first the history of the Benedictines, and then, more broadly, other topics in medieval history, with a keen interest in the history of religion and textual issues.
- He wrote two monographs, on Bede and Gregory the Great, made an important textual discovery pertaining to the mission of Saints Cyril and Methodius, and published a study of the textual tradition of the Benedictine rule.
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