Monastic Orders
Greg Peters
Abstract This schema was followed around the year 1000 by other Anglo‐Saxon authors, including Aelfric and Wulfstan of York. In a letter to Wulfstan, says that there are three orders in church God: laboratores , bellatores oratores . The first produce food, second defend land against hostile incursions, third order, those who pray, include priests, monks, bishops choose function as spiritual knights always serve church, preach Catholic faith, holy gifts infidels (Whitelock et al. 1981: 252). his own works also used same tripartite division Aelfric. A continental reference this is found poem Adalbero Laon (d. 1090): “The house God which thought be one therefore triple. Now [some] others fight, work” (Constable 1995: 284).
The Encyclopedia of Christian Civilization