English Benedictine monk Ælfric, a prolific writer and respected scholar and educator, produces biographies, a Latin grammar, and a series of dialogues in Latin called the “Colloquium", a vivid portrayal of Anglo-Saxon culture.

He designs his “Homilies” and other works, including translations from Latin, to instruct his readers in Christian doctrine.

Surnamed “the Grammarian,” he writes with an ease and clarity unusual for the time.

He dies in 1010; the copious writings of his contemporary, the churchman Wulfstan, also aid in further the stylistic development of Old English prose that was born in the tenth-century monastic revival under Alfred.