Regularis Concordia (Winchester)

[6] The urgency for monastic reform was set in motion by the Rule of Saint Benedict coming into popularity in the mid 10th century.

According to its proponents, King Edgar, Æthelwold of Winchester, Dunstan and Oswald of Worcester, monasticism had died in the 9th century and The Rule of Saint Benedict was the key for revitalization.

[7] Æthelwold of Winchester is known as the main contributor to the original Regularis Concordia manuscript, which became an official document of 10th Century monastic reform in Anglo-Saxon England.

[8] Æthelwold successfully reformed the monasticism of France into Southern England [9] Dunstan was an abbot of Glastonbury and is said to be the predecessor of Ethewold.

[10] The earliest example of theatrical ritual is found in the Regularis Concordia with the rule of the divine service, referred to as the quem quaeritis.

The Latin quote below describes: "An alternating song between the three women approaching the grave, and the angel watching on it, shall be recited; the friar who sings the words of the angel is to take his seat, clad in an alb and with a palm-twig in his hand, in a place representing the tomb; three other friars, wearing hooded capes and with censers in their hands, are to approach the tomb at a slow pace, as if in quest of something" Quem quaeritis in sepulchro, o Christicolae?