Christopher A. Jones, Jones Christopher a.

Aelfric's Letter to the Monks of Eynsham

Herausgeber: Keynes, Simon

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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 book contains a new 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. November 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 440g
• ISBN-13: 9780521030731
• ISBN-10: 0521030730
• Artikelnr.: 21210161

Inhaltsangabe

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.