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Record Nr.

UNINA9910450024203321

Autore

Jones Christopher A (Christopher Andrew)

Titolo

Aelfric's letter to the monks of Eynsham / / Christopher A. Jones [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 1998

ISBN

1-107-11536-1

1-280-16184-1

0-511-11702-7

0-511-00553-9

0-511-14957-3

0-511-30972-4

0-511-48332-5

0-511-05087-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 255 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Cambridge studies in Anglo-Saxon England ; ; 24

Disciplina

271/.102

Soggetti

Monastic and religious life - England - Eynsham - History - Middle Ages, 600-1500

Latin letters, Medieval and modern - England - Eynsham - History and criticism

Latin letters, Medieval and modern - England - Eynsham - Translations into English

Abbots - England - Eynsham

Letter writing, Latin - England - History - To 1500

Anglo-Saxons - England - Eynsham

Civilization, Anglo-Saxon

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-240) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

; 1. The Eynsham 'letter' and the study of Aelfric -- ; 2. Structure and sources -- ; 3. The manuscript -- ; 4. Critical and editorial history -- Aelfric's Letter to the Monks of Eynsham: text and translation.

Sommario/riassunto

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.