Sunday Observance and the Sunday Letter in Anglo–Saxon England Haines Hardback

Sunday Observance and the Sunday Letter in Anglo-Saxon EnglandAuthor(s): Dorothy Haines, Dorothy Haines\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: D.S. Brewer\nISBN-13: 9781843842224, 978-1843842224\nSynopsis\nEdition and translation of Anglo-Saxon text, shedding light on Sunday observance and other issues.\n\nFew issues have had as far-reaching consequences as the development of the Christian holy day, Sunday. Every seven days, from the early middle ages, the Christian world has engaged in some kind of change in behaviour, ranging fromparticipation in a simple worship service to the cessation of every activity which could conceivably be construed as work. An important text associated with this process is the so-called Sunday Letter, fabricated as a letter from Christ which dropped out of heaven. In spite of its obviously spurious nature, it was widely read and copied, and translated into nearly every vernacular language. In particular, several, .