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Ælfric's Letter to the Monks of Eynsham (Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England) Book

Though best-known today for his Old English homilies, the Anglo-Saxon scholar Ælfric also composed, in a 'letter' to his fellow monks, a set of Latin liturgical instructions which offer a rare glimpse of what ordinary monks were expected to know and do.This book contains a new edition of the Latin text with a critical apparatus, and the only complete English translation. Commentary and substantial introductory chapters establish the letter's exceptional importance for our understanding of late Anglo-Saxon monasticism and liturgy.Read More

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    Though best known today for his Old English homilies, the Anglo-Saxon scholar Ælfric also composed, in a "letter" to his fellow monks, a set of Latin liturgical instructions that offer a rare glimpse of what ordinary monks were expected to know and do. This book contains a new edition of the Latin text with a critical apparatus, and the only complete English translation. Commentary and substantial introductory chapters establish the letter's exceptional importance for our understanding of late Anglo-Saxon monasticism and liturgy.

  • 0521030730
  • 9780521030731
  • Christopher A. Jones
  • 18 January 2007
  • Cambridge University Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 268
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