Lfric's Letter to the Monks of Eynsham

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