At the heart of life in any medieval Christian religious community was the communal recitation of the daily -hours of prayer- or Divine Office. This book draws on narrative, conciliar, and manuscript sources to reconstruct the history of how the Divine Office was sung in Anglo-Saxon minster churches from the coming of the first Roman missionaries in 597 to the height of the -monastic revival- in the tenth century. Going beyond both the hagiographic -Benedictine- assumptions of older scholarship and the cautious agnosticism of more recent historians of Anglo-Saxon Christianity, the author...