Dominic of Evesham

He is chiefly known for his religious works, including one on the miracles of the Virgin Mary that was an important source for later writings on the subject.

[5] The Vita Sancti Odulfi gave a hagiography of St Odulf, a missionary to Brabant whose relics were enshrined at Evesham.

[6] The monastic historian David Knowles felt that the account of Abbot Æthelwig's death that is contained in the Chronicon Abbatiae de Evesham was written by Dominic, not by the main author of the chronicle, Thomas of Marlborough.

[7] This is challenged by D. C. Cox, who argues that the writing style is dissimilar to Dominic's and that chronological history was outside the prior's literary interests.

Dominic's collection, along with William's and another by Anselm, the abbot of Bury St Edmunds Abbey, eventually formed the basis for a new genre of writings that stressed devotion to the Virgin herself, rather than to places or people connected to her.

[9] The account of the death of Æthelwig along with the Vitas and the Acta were published in 1863 in the Rolls Series number 29, edited by William Dunn Macray.

[8][10] The Vita Sancti Egwini, edited by Michael Lapidge, has been published in the journal Analecta Bollandiana, which is devoted to the study of hagiography.