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lfric's Letter to the Monks of Eynsham Christopher A. Jones (Idaho State University)

lfric's Letter to the Monks of Eynsham By Christopher A. Jones (Idaho State University)

lfric's Letter to the Monks of Eynsham by Christopher A. Jones (Idaho State University)


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The Anglo-Saxon scholar lfric composed an important set of Latin liturgical instructions for his fellow monks. This 1999 book contains an edition of the Latin text with a critical apparatus, and a complete English translation, along with a commentary and substantial introductory chapters.

lfric's Letter to the Monks of Eynsham Summary

lfric's Letter to the Monks of Eynsham by Christopher A. Jones (Idaho State University)

Though best known today for his Old English homilies, the Anglo-Saxon scholar lfric 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.

lfric's Letter to the Monks of Eynsham Reviews

'This edition constitutes a spirited challenge to such neglect. Jones, with scholarly rigour, makes the Letter accessible and comprehensible to readers whose liturgical expertise may not have reached the level lfric's text assumes.' Review of English Studies
'Jones provides a lucid and rather accurate English translation of lfric's letter, which is the first complete English translation of this work, and his textual commentary is full of illuminating liturgical and historical information. In short, Christopher A. Jones' lfric's Letter to the Monks of Eynsham will undoubtedly become an indispensable tool for any student of the mastic liturgy of Anglo-Saxon England, and it deserves a very warm welcome indeed.' Revue Belge de Philologie et d'Histoire

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; 1. The Eynsham 'letter' and the study of lfric; 2. Structure and sources; 3. The manuscript; 4. Critical and editorial history; Editorial principles; lfric's Letter to the Monks of Eynsham: text and translation; Commentary; Appendix; Bibliography; Index of liturgical formae; General index.

Additional information

NPB9780521630115
9780521630115
0521630118
lfric's Letter to the Monks of Eynsham by Christopher A. Jones (Idaho State University)
New
Hardback
Cambridge University Press
1999-03-25
266
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