Christopher A.   Jones
Though best known today for his Old English homilies, the Anglo-Saxon scholar ï¿½lfric 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.
Ã†lfric's Letter to the Monks of Eynsham