Table of Contents

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
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
A Fragment of a Tenth-Century English Benedictine 'Breviary'
A Fragment of a Tenth-Century English Benedictine Chant Book
Conclusion: Ways of Making a Benedictine Office
Appendices
Bibliography
Index of Manuscripts
Index of Liturgical Forms

Reviews

Magisterial . . . This excellently written book should be in your library, or even on your shelf, because it has so much detail in its pages that you may find yourself referring back to it often. It is, in short, a very well-written book with succinct and clear conclusions filled with erudite and scholarly analysis, but still accessible to those of us who know less about liturgy.
*JOURNAL OF ENGLISH AND GERMANIC PHILOLOGY*

The Divine Office in Anglo-Saxon England has earned itself a place of honor alongside Pfaff's The Liturgy in Medieval England and The Liturgical Books of Anglo Saxon England on the liturgical bookshelf. Students of the English liturgy will be starting from Billett's new narrative for years to come.
*WORSHIP*

Jesse Billett has produced a truly magisterial work on the development of the Divine Office throughout the Anglo-Saxon period.
*SPECULUM*

Billett has achieved a major piece of scholarship, and it should be circulated as widely as possible.
*THE MEDIEVAL REVIEW*

This is a book not only for specialists in liturgical history but also for anyone interested in the varieties of Anglo-Saxon religious life. Because Billett writes so accessibly about even the most technical aspects of his subject, the results of his important research should reach a wide audience.
*CATHOLIC HISTORICAL REVIEW*

The author uses extensive documentation to craft a narrative that steers away from some of the traditional simplification that assumed all monks, from Augustine of Canterbury on, were Benedictine and thus the liturgical prayer was also.
*AMERICAN MONASTIC NEWSLETTER*