Aelfric'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 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-Saxo…
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Weitere Autoren: Christopher a., Jones / Keynes, Simon (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-521-03073-1
- EAN: 9780521030731
- Produktnummer: 2650796
- Verlag: Cambridge University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
- Seitenangabe: 268 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D1.5 cm 417 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 417
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