Here, the six surviving Old English copies of the 'Sunday Letter' are edited together. The Old English texts are accompanied by facing translations, with commen

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Some of the earliest examples of medieval canon law are penitentials - texts enumerating the sins a confessor might encounter among laypeople or other clergy an

The overriding importance of Sunday as a Christian feast day is emphasized by many apocryphal and pseudepigraphic texts from Late Antiquity, above all the broad

This book brings together new research that represents current scholarship on the nexus between authority and written sources from Anglo-Saxon England. Ranging