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 ... Read morethose 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 Show Less