Middle English Literature
Subtitle: An Historical Sourcebook
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Limited
Published: June 1, 2003
Language: eng
Number of pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780631231479
First sentence: Monastic orders existed in Ireland and Wales in the fifth century, first arrived in England in the sixth and seventh centuries, and in the eighth century the Rule of St. Benedict (480-ca. 550), Benedict's set of codes for behavior, also came to be known in the British Isles.