ABSTRACT
Starting in the mid-tenth century, the Benedictine Reform movement brought a spirit of religious and intellectual revival to Anglo-Saxon England. The key moment for the Benedictine Reform movement was the accession of the boy king Edgar to the English throne. Edgar was King Alfred's great-grandson and in due course he became known as the Peace-maker. In order to teach Latin most effectively, the Colloquy in its original Latin form opts for consistency over elegant variation, and so it repeats the verb capere in a variety of forms. In this letter, which is also preserved in the Beowulf manuscript, Alexander the Great tells his former teacher, Aristotle, of all the wondrous things he and his army have encountered while campaigning in India. Looking back on all the mayhem before Cnut took power, one has to marvel at the national political role of Archbishop Wulfstan of York.
