ENGLISH

Aelfric's Letter to the Monks of Eynsham

By Christopher A. Jones

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
1999
ISBN
0521630118, 9780521630115, 9780511005534
LCC
PR1524.A64 J66 1998
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1079403 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England
Pages
267\267
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40

Description

Though best known today for his Old English homilies, the Anglo-Saxon scholar ?lfric 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.

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