Eberhard of Béthune

{{Short description|13th-century Flemish author}}

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Eberhard of Béthune (also known as Everard of Béthune, Évrard de Béthune, Éverard de Béthune, Ebrardus Bethuniensis or Bithuniensis, Eberhardus Bethuniensis, Eberard, Ebrard, Ebrad; died c. 1212){{cite web|title=Liste lateinischer Autoren und anonymer Werke des 13. Jahrhunderts (ca. 1170–1320)|work=MGH Poetae|author=Peter Christian Jacobsen|year=2002|location=Erlangen|language=de|url=http://www.mgh.de/~Poetae/Autorenliste/AutorenE.htm}} was a Flemish{{cite encyclopedia|encyclopedia=Christian Cyclopedia|editor1=Erwin L. Lueker|editor2=Luther Poellot|editor3=Paul Jackson|publisher=Concordia Publishing House|year=2000|article=Eberhard(t) of Béthune|url=http://www.lcms.org/ca/www/cyclopedia/02/display.asp?t1=E&word=EBERHARDTOFBETHUNE|title=Archived copy|access-date=2007-03-09|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050430163019/http://www.lcms.org/ca/www/cyclopedia/02/display.asp?t1=e&word=EBERHARDTOFBETHUNE|archive-date=2005-04-30|url-status=dead}} grammarian of the early thirteenth century, from Arras. He was the author of Graecismus, a popular Latin grammatical poem, dated to c. 1212.{{cite encyclopedia|encyclopedia = Oxford English Dictionary|contribution = poetry|publisher = Oxford University Press|contribution-url = http://www.altx.com/EBR/reviews/rev11/gillespie/poetry.htm}} The Graecismus was edited by Johannes Wrobel, Eberhard von Bethune: Graecismus (Breslau 1887, reprint: Hildesheim/Zürich/New York 1987). The name came from a short section on the Greek language.{{cite web|title=The Age of Erasmus|author=P. S. Allen|work=Project Gutenberg|date=2005-05-10|url=http://www.gutenberg.org/files/15810/15810-h/15810-h.htm|quote=Its name, Graecismus, was based upon a chapter, the eighth, devoted to the elementary study of Greek.}} His Laborintus is "an elaborate and critical treatise on poetry and pedagogics";{{cite book|title=Mazes and Labyrinths|author=W. H. Matthews|publisher=Dover Publications|date=1970-06-01|chapter=XXII. The Labyrinth in Literature|chapter-url=http://www.sacred-texts.com/etc/ml/ml25.htm|isbn=0-486-22614-X}} it is also known as De Miseriis Rectorum Scholarum.

He was also actively engaged against the Waldensians,{{cite journal|journal=Peace Research|volume=36|issue=2|date=November 2004|pages=7|title=Peacemaking Principles drawn from Opposition to the Crusades (1095–1276)|author=John Derkesen|url=http://io.uwinnipeg.ca/~msc/downloads/MSC_research-derksen1.pdf|format=PDF|access-date=2007-03-09|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061022000528/http://io.uwinnipeg.ca/~msc/downloads/MSC_research-derksen1.pdf|archive-date=2006-10-22|url-status=dead}} and wrote a book entitled Liber Antihaeresis (c. 1210) against them. He is cited in Foxe's Book of Martyrs as to the etymology of the name.{{cite book|author=John Foxe|title=Foxe's Book of Martyrs|year=1563|chapter=POPE ALEXANDER III AND THE WALDENSES|chapter-url=http://www.exclassics.com/foxe/foxe43.htm}}