Praise the Lord... my new habit. © Christopher Monk 2015. Once in a while an Anglo-Saxon monk needs a new habit. According to the Benedictine Rule, he's allowed both a winter-weight one and a summer version, which can actually be an old threadbare one.
Not one for excess, I've finally got around to getting a new habit (and linen under tunic and trousers) after living forty plus years in my monastery. Admittedly, blessed readers, I have had a few changes of clothing in that time: you didn't expect me to still be in the clothes I had as a seven-year-old oblate, did you?
Being a trans-historical monk, I managed to find a twenty-first century craftsman to produce my garb for me. So a great big thank you to Aidan Campbell for exercising one of his many talents in providing me with an excellent fitting outfit.
Remarkably, he was able to work from only a set of measurements and a couple of manuscript images. Please enjoy, beloved, the results of his labours:
Not one for excess, I've finally got around to getting a new habit (and linen under tunic and trousers) after living forty plus years in my monastery. Admittedly, blessed readers, I have had a few changes of clothing in that time: you didn't expect me to still be in the clothes I had as a seven-year-old oblate, did you?
Being a trans-historical monk, I managed to find a twenty-first century craftsman to produce my garb for me. So a great big thank you to Aidan Campbell for exercising one of his many talents in providing me with an excellent fitting outfit.
Remarkably, he was able to work from only a set of measurements and a couple of manuscript images. Please enjoy, beloved, the results of his labours:
My instructions to Aidan Campbell. These did not appear on the original manuscript, which is from the eleventh-century Arundel Psalter: British Library, Arundel 155 (Canterbury, 1012-1023), fol. 10r. Image PUBLIC DOMAIN: click on it to go to source.
  Please, Saint Benedict, may I have a new habit? The monk-scribe Eadui Basan on his knees before the author of the Benedict Rule. British Library, Arundel 155, fol. 133r. Image PUBLIC DOMAIN: click on it to go to source. |  The Anglo-Saxon Monk and an authentic eleventh-century patio heater. © Christopher Monk 2015 |
The cameraman was rather shocked by this: apologies. © Christopher Monk 2015
 It's back-breaking work for the Anglo-Saxon Monk. © Christopher Monk 2015 Let us know what you think of the new look Anglo-Saxon Monk. |  It's all too much! © Christopher Monk 2015 |
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