UID:
almafu_9959234620102883
Format:
1 online resource (x, 255 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-107-11536-1
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1-280-16184-1
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0-511-11702-7
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0-511-00553-9
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0-511-14957-3
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0-511-30972-4
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0-511-48332-5
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0-511-05087-9
Series Statement:
Cambridge studies in Anglo-Saxon England ; 24
Content:
Though best known today for his Old English homilies, the Anglo-Saxon scholar Ælfric also composed a Latin 'letter' to his fellow monks at Eynsham (Oxfordshire) containing a detailed outline of their daily and seasonal round of prayer and other duties. The document offers a rare glimpse of what ordinary monks in Anglo-Saxon England were expected to know and do. This 1999 book contains an edition of the Latin letters a textual commentary, and a complete English translation of the work. Dr Jones also provides substantial introductory chapters which establish the exceptional importance of the Eynsham letter for our understanding of late Anglo-Saxon monasticism and liturgy. The book will interest students of early medieval culture, monasticism and Church history.
Note:
Revision of a doctoral thesis, University of Toronto, 1995.
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The Eynsham 'letter' and the study of Aelfric --
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Structure and sources --
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The manuscript --
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Critical and editorial history --
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Aelfric's Letter to the Monks of Eynsham: text and translation.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-03073-0
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-63011-8
Language:
English
Subjects:
English Studies
URL:
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URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511483325
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