}}lfric's Letter to the Monks of Eynsham [Paperback]

This 1999 book contains an edition of the Latin text and complete English translation of ?lfric's liturgical 'letter'.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.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.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.Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; 1. The Eynsham 'letter' and the study of ?lfric; 2. Structure and sources; 3. The manuscript; 4. Critical and editorial history; Editorial principles; ?lfric's Letter to the Monks of Eynsham: text and translatl“g