The Old English Rule of Saint Benedict: With Related Old English Texts Volume 264

Awarded 2019 Best Edition or Translation of an Anglo—Saxon (or Anglo—Latin) Text by the International Society of Anglo—Saxonists

St. Æthelwold (904/9 –984), abbot of Abingdon and bishop of Winchester, made the first translation of the Rule of Saint Benedict into English (or, indeed, into any vernacular language) as part of the tenth—century English Benedictine Reform. This movement dramatically affected the trajectory of religious life in early medieval England and influenced the ways in wh...