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.
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"...extensive commentary..." Theology Digest
"...impressive scholarly introduction...This text gives a remarkable insight into what was read, sung, and enacted in an Anglo-Saxon monastery at the turn of the previous millennium." Church History
"Jones gives any student much to learn in this wide treatment...The Cambridge University Press and the series editors deserve thanks and congratulations for publishing this excellent work, which will illuminate its readers while extending the reputation of the house further." Speculum
"...impressive scholarly introduction...This text gives a remarkable insight into what was read, sung, and enacted in an Anglo-Saxon monastery at the turn of the previous millennium." Church History
"Jones gives any student much to learn in this wide treatment...The Cambridge University Press and the series editors deserve thanks and congratulations for publishing this excellent work, which will illuminate its readers while extending the reputation of the house further." Speculum
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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.
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trim oratio, matutinal mass, festiuis diebus, pro defunctis fratribus, winter horarium, psalmi familiares, summer horarium, uade retro, ecclesiastica consuetudine, consuetudine monachorum, trina oratio, exceptis dominicis, liber consuetudinum, tres lectiones, single antiphon, first responsory, monastic customaries, non canimus, votive antiphons, ordo lectionum, first antiphon, solis ortus, monastic liturgy, cathedral priory, medieval liturgy Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Old English, Archbishop Wulfstan, Worcester Cathedral, Eynsham Abbey, King Edgar, Catholic Homilies, Ælfric's Letter, Cotton Tiberius, Good Friday, Supplementary Collection, Corpus Christi College, Descriptive Catalogue, Monastic Order, Night Office, Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Benedictine Rule, Chrism Mass, Old Minster, Amalarius's Liber, Benedict's Rule, Bodleian Library, Edward the Martyr, English Caroline Script, Vita Wulfstani, Cathedral Library New!
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Even at the height of his literary activity, to the question 'What do you do?' Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
trim oratio, matutinal mass, festiuis diebus, pro defunctis fratribus, winter horarium, psalmi familiares, summer horarium, uade retro, ecclesiastica consuetudine, consuetudine monachorum, trina oratio, exceptis dominicis, liber consuetudinum, tres lectiones, single antiphon, first responsory, monastic customaries, non canimus, votive antiphons, ordo lectionum, first antiphon, solis ortus, monastic liturgy, cathedral priory, medieval liturgy Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Old English, Archbishop Wulfstan, Worcester Cathedral, Eynsham Abbey, King Edgar, Catholic Homilies, Ælfric's Letter, Cotton Tiberius, Good Friday, Supplementary Collection, Corpus Christi College, Descriptive Catalogue, Monastic Order, Night Office, Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Benedictine Rule, Chrism Mass, Old Minster, Amalarius's Liber, Benedict's Rule, Bodleian Library, Edward the Martyr, English Caroline Script, Vita Wulfstani, Cathedral Library New!
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- Anglo-Saxon England: Volume 28 by Michael Lapidge on 12 pages
- Anglo-Saxon England: Volume 27 by Michael Lapidge on 7 pages
- Anglo-Saxon Litanies of the Saints (Henry Bradshaw Society, Cvi) by Michael Lapidge on 6 pages
- Eynsham Abbey, 1005-1228 by Eric Gordon on 4 pages
- Introduction to the English Monastic Breviaries (Henry Bradshaw Society) by J.B.L. Tolhurst on 4 pages
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