Ælfric (955 - circa 1022). Called Grammaticus (10th century), sometimes confounded with two other persons of the same name, Ælfred of Canterbury and Ælfred of York, was a monk at Winchester, and afterwards Abbot of Cerne and Eynsham successively.
He has left works which shed an important light on the doctrine and practice of the early Church in England, including two books of homilies (990 - 94), a Grammar, Glossary, Passiones Sanctorum (Sufferings of the Saints), translations of parts of the Bible with omissions and interpolations, Canones Ælfrici, and other theological treatises. His writings had an influence on the formation of English prose. He filled in his age somewhat the same position that Bede did in his, that of a compiler and populariser of existing knowledge.
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