Wulfstan II, Archbishop of York wrote some works in Latin, and numerous works in Old English, then the vernacular.[1] He has also been credited with a few short poems. His works can generally be divided into homiletic, legal, and philosophical (or socio-political) categories. [edit] Homiletic 'Block' 1 ("Eschatological Homilies") - De Anticristo[1] (Latin, Bethurum Ia)[2]
- De Anticristo[2] (Old English, Bethrum Ib)
| - Lectio Sancti Evangelii Secundum Matheum[3] (Old English, Bethurum II)
- Secundum Lucam[4] (Old English, Bethurum III)
| - De Temporibus Anticristi[5] (Old English, Bethurum IV)
- Secundum Marcum[6] (Old English, Bethurum V)
| 'Block' 2 ("The Christian Faith") - Incipiunt Sermones Lupi Episcopi (Old English, Bethurum VI)
- De Fide Catholica (Old English, Bethurum VII)
- To Eallum Folke (Old English, Bethurum VIIa)
- Incipit de Baptisma (Latin, Bethurum VIIIa)
| - Dominica Quaterna vel Quando Volueris (Old English, Bethurum VIIIb)
- Sermo de Baptismate (Old English, Bethurum VIIIc)
- De Septiformi Spiritu (Old English, Bethurum IX; a reworking of a homily by Ælfric)
- De Regula Canonicorum (Old English, Bethurum Xa; a translation of chapter 145 of the 816 Council of Aachen)
| - De Cristianitate (Latin, Bethurum Xb)
- Her Ongynð Be Cristendome (Old English, Bethurum XC; a reworking of Xa and Xb)
- Incipit de Visione Isaie Prophete Quam Vidit Super Idam et Hierusalem (Latin & Old English, Bethurum XI)
- De Falsis Dies (Old English, Bethurum XII; a reworking of a homily by Ælfric)
| 'Block' 3 ("Archiepicopal Functions") - Sermo ad Populum (Old English, Bethurum XIII)
- Sermo in Quadragesima (Old English, Bethurum XIV)
- Sermo de Cena Domini (Old English, Bethurum XV)
| - Verba Ezechielis Prophete de Pastoribus non recte Agentibus (Latin, Bethurum XVIa)
- Verba Ezechiel Prophete de Pigris aut Timidis vel Neglegentibus Pastoribus (Old English, Bethurum XVIb; a translation of XVIa)
| - Lectio Secundum Lucam (Old English, Bethurum XVII)
- De Dedicatione Ecclesiae (Old English, Bethurum XVIII)
| 'Block' 4 ("Evil Days") - Be Godcundre Warnunge (Old English, Bethurum XIX)
| | - Her is gyt Rihtlic Warnung Ond Soðlic Myngung Ðeode to Ðearfe (Old English, Bethurum XXI)
| Miscellaneous - Untitled (Napier I)[3]
- Untitled (Napier XXIII)
- Untitled (Napier XXIV)
- To Folce (Napier XXV)
- To Eallum Folce (Napier XXVII)
| - Be Mistlican Gelimpan (Napier XXXV)
- To Eallum Folce (Napier XXXVI)
- Her Is Gyt Oþer Wel God Eaca (Napier XXXVIII)
- ?Ðis Man Gerædde, đa se Micela Here Com to Lande (Napier XXXIX)
- Larspel and Scriftboc (Napier XLVII; first part only)
- ?Larspel (Napier L)
- To Eallan Folke (Napier LI)
| - To Mæsseprostum (Napier LII)
- To Mæssepreostum (Napier LIII)
- Sermo Lupi (Napier LIX)
- Be Hæðendome (Napier LX)
- Be Cristendome (Napier LXI)
| - Episcopus (Old English)[4]
- The Laws of Edward and Guthrum (Old English)
- ?The Northumbrian Priests' Law (Old English)
- The Canons of Edgar (Old English)[5]
- ?Excerptiones de libris canonicis (Latin; a.k.a. Excerptiones pseudo-Ecgberhti)[6]
| - Ethelred's legislation, 1008, King's Enham (Latin & Old English; survives as VAtr, VIAtr, VIAtrLat, XAtr)
- Að (Old English)
- Mircna laga (Old English)
- Norðleoda laga (Old English)
- Ethelred's legislation, ca. 1009, Bath (Latin, VIIaAtr)
- Hadbot (Old English)
| - Geþyncðo (Old English)
- Grið (Old English)
- Ethelred's legislation, 1014 (Old English, VIIIAtr, ?IXAtr)
- Cnut's legislation, 1018 (Old English, Cn 1018)
- Cnut's legislation, 1020 (Old English, Cn 1020)
- Cnut's legislation (secular), ca. 1021 (Old English, ICn)
- Cnut's legislation (ecclesiastical), ca. 1021 (Old English, IICn)
| He also made revisions to - King Athelstan's tithe ordinance (IAs)
- Edmund's London code (IEm)
- Edgar's Andover code (II-IIIEg)
[edit] Philosophical - The Institutes of Polity I (Old English; original version)[7]
- The Institutes of Polity II (Old English; revision)
[edit] Poetical - Qui legis hunc titulum (Latin; verses praising Wulfstan)[8]
- Poem on King Edgar's Succession (Old English; Anglo-Saxon Chronicle E, s.a. 959)[9]
- Poem on King Edward's Succession (Old English; Anglo-Saxon Chronicle D, s.a. 975)[10]
- ^ An up-to-date list is provided by Sara M. Pons-Sanz "A Reconsideration of Wulfstan's use of Norse-Derived Terms: The Case of Þræl" pp. 6-7.
- ^ Dorothy Bethrum, The Homilies of Wulfstan; all homilies, unless otherwise noted, are found in Bethrum.
- ^ Arthur Napier, Wulfstan: Sammlung der ihm zugeschriebenen Homilien
- ^ Felix Liebermann, ed., Die Gesetze Der Angelsachsen vol 1; all Wulfstan's legal works, unless otherwise noted, are found in Liebermann's edition.
- ^ Roger Fowler, ed., The Canons of Edgar
- ^ James E. Cross & Andrew Hamer, eds., Wulfstan's Canon Law Collection
- ^ Karl Jost, ed., Die ‘Institutes of Polity, Civil and Ecclesiastical’
- ^ Bethurum, The Homilies of Wulfstan, pp. 377-78
- ^ Michael Swanton, ed., The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, p. 114
- ^ Michael Swanton, ed., The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, p. 121
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- Lerer, Seth (1999). "Old English and its Afterlife". in David Wallace. The Cambridge History of Medieval English Literature. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-44420-9.
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- Whitelock, Dorothy (1981). COuncils and Synods, With Other Documents Relating to the English Church, Volume 1: A.D. 871-1204 (pt. 1: 871-1066). Oxford: Clarendon Press.
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- Wulfstan; Jost, Karl (editor) (1959). Die ‘Institutes of Polity, Civil and Ecclesiastical’: Ein Werk Erzbischof Wulfstans von York. Swiss Studies in English 47. Bern: A. Francke AG Verlag.
- Wulfstan; Bethurum, Dorothy (1957). The Homilies of Wulfstan. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
- Wulfstan; Napier, Arthur (1883). Sammlung der ihm Zugeschriebenen Homilien nebst Untersuchungen über ihre Echtheit. Berlin: Weidmann. http://books.google.com/books?id=WecUpDmMTrkC.
- Wulfstan; James E. Cross and Andrew Hamer (editors) (1999). Wulfstan's Canon Law Collection. Anglo-Saxon Texts I. Cambridge, UK: D. S. Brewer.
- Strayer, Joseph R., ed (1989). "Wulfstan of York". Dictionary of the Middle Ages. 1 & 12.
- Szarmach, Paul E., M Teresa Tavormina, and Joel T. Rosenthal, ed (1998). "Wulfstan of York". Medieval England: An Encyclopedia. New York: Garland Publishers. ISBN 978-0824057862.
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