'lfric's Letter to the Monks of Eynsham (Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England)
Book Details
Author(s)Christopher A. Jones
PublisherCambridge University Press
ISBN / ASIN0521030730
ISBN-139780521030731
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Description
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.

