Ælfric's Letter to the Monks of Eynsham

Ælfric's Letter to the Monks of Eynsham

by Christopher A. Jones
Ælfric's Letter to the Monks of Eynsham

Ælfric's Letter to the Monks of Eynsham

by Christopher A. Jones

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Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780521030731
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 01/18/2007
Series: Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England , #24
Edition description: Reissue
Pages: 268
Product dimensions: 5.98(w) x 8.98(h) x 0.63(d)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; 1. The Eynsham 'letter' and the study of Ælfric; 2. Structure and sources; 3. The manuscript; 4. Critical and editorial history; Editorial principles; Ælfric's Letter to the Monks of Eynsham: text and translation; Commentary; Appendix; Bibliography; Index of liturgical formae; General index.
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