Ebook: The Divine Office in Anglo-Saxon England: 597-c.1000

Part I. The historical development of the divine office in England to c. 1000 -- Towards a "new narrative" of the history of the divine office in Anglo-Saxon England -- The divine office in the Latin West in the early Middle Ages -- The divine office in England from the Augustinian mission to the first Viking invasions, 597-c.835 -- The divine office in England from the first Viking age to the abbacy of Dunstan at Glastonbury, c.835-c.940 -- The divine office and the tenth-century English Benedictine reform -- Part II. Manuscript evidence for English office chant in the tenth century -- A methodology for the study of Anglo-Saxon chant books for the office -- Two witnesses to the chant of the secular office in England in the tenth century : Durham, Cathedral Library, A. IV. 19 and Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 41 -- A fragment of a tenth-century English Benedictine "breviary" : London, British Library, Royal 17., C. XVII, fols. 2-3 and 163-6 -- A fragment of a tenth-century English Benedictine chant book : Oxford, Bodleian Library, Rawl. D. 894, fols. 62-3 -- Conclusion : ways of making a Benedictine office.;First full-scale survey and examination of liturgical practice and its fundamental changes over four centuries.