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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.

Monastic and religious life --- Latin letters, Medieval and modern --- Abbots --- Anglo-Saxons --- Civilization, Anglo-Saxon. --- Monastic life --- Spirituality (in religious orders, congregations, etc.) --- Monasticism and religious orders --- Spiritual life --- Vows --- Anglo-Saxon civilization --- Saxons --- Superiors, Religious --- History --- History and criticism. --- Christianity --- Civilization --- Aelfric, --- Elfrike, --- Älfrik, --- Aelfrik, --- Alfric, --- Alfricus, --- Elfric, --- Aelfricus, --- Eynsham Abbey (Eynsham, England) --- Civilization, Anglo-Saxon --- Letter writing, Latin --- 271.1 <420 EYNSHAM> --- 271.1 <420 EYNSHAM> Benedictijnen--Engeland--EYNSHAM --- Benedictijnen--Engeland--EYNSHAM --- Correspondence --- History and criticism --- Translations into English --- Correspondence. --- Latin letter writing --- Translations into English. --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature