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The Medieval Church · c. 1010–1012
The Enchiridion
Byrhtferth of Ramsey · c. 970–c. 1020
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What it is
A textbook on the calendar and the computus in Latin and English by turns, wandering into numerology, the four elements, and complaints about lazy priests.
Why it lasted
The fullest picture of what an English monastic schoolroom taught around the year 1000, digressions and exasperation included.
Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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