lfric's Letter to the Monks of Eynsham

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...