Handbook for a Confessor (also Old English Handbook, or in full, Late Old English Handbook for the Use of a Confessor) is a compilation of Old English...

Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy was the most popular philosophical handbook of the Middle Ages. Unlike the translation of the Pastoral Care, the Alfredian...

Maximus the Confessor (Greek: Μάξιμος ὁ Ὁμολογητής, romanized: Maximos ho Homologētēs), also spelled Maximos, otherwise known as Maximus the Theologian...

Cummeani Paenitentiale Halitgari Collectio canonum quadripartita Handbook for a Confessor Rouche 1987, p. 528. Körntgen, L. (1993). Studien zu den Quellen...

(1858). "On the Anglo-Saxon Charters of Friðwald, Ælfred, and Edward the Confessor, to Chertsey Abbey" . Surrey Archaeological Collections. 1. London: Surrey...

Bede also mentions an Abbot Esi as a source for the affairs of the East Anglian church, and Bishop Cynibert for information about Lindsey. The historian...

activities of the abbey. Ælfric no doubt gained some reputation as a scholar at Winchester, for when, in 987, the abbey of Cerne (at Cerne Abbas in Dorset) was...

continue to unfold." Catholicism portal Christian views on sin Handbook for a Confessor Note on the importance of the internal forum and the inviolability...

Conquest. For political reasons, these laws were attributed to Edward the Confessor (r. 1042–1066), and "under the guise of the Leges Edwardi Confessoris...

The Old English Martyrology is a collection of over 230 hagiographies, probably compiled in Mercia, or by someone who wrote in the Mercian dialect of...

the [C] manuscript, which ends with Edward the Confessor's marriage on 23 January, while the entry for 22 April is recorded under 1045. There are also...

(also known as the West-Saxon Gospels) are a translation of the four gospels of the Christian Bible into a West Saxon dialect of Old English. Produced...

Quaestiones in Genesim is a commentary on the biblical Book of Genesis by the Anglo-Saxon scholar Alcuin, addressed to his protege Sigewulf, comprising...

offering a ritualistic cure for a horse in pain requiring the words "Bless all the works of the Lord of lords" to be inscribed on the handle of a dagger...

through the reign of King Edward the Confessor, and were still being reaffirmed in 1100, when King Henry I of England swore a coronation oath to observe the...

and supplying a long section on the geography of the North European world. The work is particularly noted in modern scholarship for including an account...

Leicester. Fowler, Roger (ed.). "A Late Old English Handbook for the Use of a Confessor." Anglia 83.1 (1965): 1-34. Wade-Evans, A. W. Vitae Britanniae et Genealogiae...

manuscripts discuss monsters. Furthermore, it is a liber monstrorum, or book of marvels, designed for entertainment along with the usual edification. Andy...

poems have proved to be very difficult to date. Patrick O'Neill has argued for a connection to the court of Alfred the Great (reigned 886 – 26 October 899)...

manuscripts (the Cambridge University manuscript and the Cotton Vitellius A. 15 manuscript in the British Library), both dating from the 11th century...

familiarized himself with the best canonical writings to provide a basis of accepted authority for [these] reforms." One version of the Canons — labelled version...

probably made for use by lay people. The translation is known in seven manuscripts, most of which are fragmentary. The best-known of those is a richly illuminated...

so-called Old English Lapidary (Cotton Tiberius A.iii) is a 10th or 11th century Old English lapidary, a translation of older Latin glosses on the precious...

passed into Ordlaf's sole ownership after Helmstan's second conviction for stealing a neighbour's oxen. The letter was intended to be used as evidence in...

Elaine Treharne argues that the Latin version was adapted into Old English for a monastic readership, perhaps lay people who had turned to monasticism later...

Blickling Homily XVI seems to have a common source with Ælfric of Eynsham's later homily for September 29, which was clearly a Latin or vernacular version of...

prose. London, British Library, Cotton MS Otho A.vi (known as MS C). Mid-tenth century. This contains a prose translation of Boethius's prose largely identical...

behave in a manner more pleasing to God, and specifically to live according to the laws of the Church and of the king. The Sermo Lupi is noted for its rhetorical...

through XXI are both sets of three intended for the days leading into Ascension Day as a preparation for, on the third day, meeting God. Relatively few...

proverbs have a biblical reference. The book of Proverbs in the Bible resembles the Durham Proverbs by providing teachings on morals for a society of its...