List of works by Wulfstan of York

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.

Homiletic

'Block' 1 ("Eschatological Homilies")

De Anticristo (Latin, Bethurum Ia)[2] De Anticristo (Old English, Bethurum Ib)

Lectio Sancti Evangelii Secundum Matheum (Old English, Bethurum II) Secundum Lucam (Old English, Bethurum III)

De Temporibus Anticristi (Old English, Bethurum IV) Secundum Marcum (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 Deis (Old English, Bethurum XII; a reworking of a homily by Ælfric)

'Block' 3 ("Archiepiscopal 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 Ezechielis Prophete de Pigris aut Timidis vel Negligentibus 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)

Sermo Lupi ad Anglos (Old English, Bethurum XX; in multiple versions written at different times)

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 Mæssepreostum (Napier LII) To Mæssepreostum (Napier LIII) Sermo Lupi (Napier LIX) Be Hæðendome (Napier LX) Be Cristendome (Napier LXI)

• ?Admonitio episcoporum utilis (Latin; ed. Hall;^[4] in two versions)
• ?Admonitio spiritalis doctrinae (Latin; ed. Cross^[5])
• ?Contra iniquos iudices et falsos testes (Latin; ed. Hall^[6])
• ?De adiutorio Dei et libero arbitrio (Latin; ed. Hall^[7])
• ?De blasphemia (Latin; ed. Elliot )
• ?De coniugio antiquo (Latin; ed. Cross-Hamer^[8])
• ?De conversione et penitentia et communione (Latin; ed. Hall^[9])
• ?De decimis dandis (Latin; ed. Hall^[10])
• ?De diversitate ordinum (Latin; ed. Elliot )
• ?De dominis et seruis (Latin; ed. Hall^[11])
• ?De ieiunio quattuor temporum (Latin; ed. Cross^[12])
• ?De paenitentia communi pro quacumque tribulatione (Latin; ed. Elliot )
• ?De pastore et praedicatore (Latin; ed. Elliot )
• ?De rapinis ecclesiasticarum rerum (Latin; ed. Cross;^[13] in two versions)
• ?De resurrectione mortuorum (Latin; ed. Hall^[14])
• ?De veneratione sacerdotum (Latin; ed. Elliot ; in multiple versions)
• ?In nomine Domini (Latin; ed. di Sciacca^[15])
• ?Sermo ad coniugatos et filios (Latin; ed. Hall^[16])
• ?Sermo ad viduas (Latin; ed. Hall^[17])
• ?Sermo sancti Augustini de baptismo non iterando (Latin; ed. Hall^[18])

Legal

Episcopus (Old English)[19] The Laws of Edward and Guthrum (Old English) ?The Northumbrian Priests' Law (Old English) The Canons of Edgar (Old English)[20] ?Collectio canonum Wigorniensis (Latin; a.k.a. Wulfstan's Canon Law Collection, or the Excerptiones pseudo-Ecgberhti)[21]

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)

Philosophical

• The Institutes of Polity I (Old English; original version)^[22]
• The Institutes of Polity II (Old English; revision)

Poetical

• Qui legis hunc titulum (Latin; verses praising Wulfstan)^[23]
• Poem on King Edgar's Succession (Old English; Anglo-Saxon Chronicle E, s.a. 959)^[24]
• Poem on King Edward's Succession (Old English; Anglo-Saxon Chronicle D, s.a. 975)^[25]

Notes

1. 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.
2. Dorothy Bethurum, The Homilies of Wulfstan; all homilies, unless otherwise noted, are found in Bethurum.
3. Arthur Napier, Wulfstan: Sammlung der ihm zugeschriebenen Homilien
4. Thomas N. Hall, ‘Wulfstan’s Latin Sermons’, pp. 110–14.
5. James E. Cross, ‘A Newly-Identified Manuscript’, pp. 78–80.
6. Thomas N. Hall, ‘Wulfstan’s Latin Sermons’, pp. 120–23.
7. Thomas N. Hall, ‘Wulfstan’s Latin Sermons’, pp. 133–36.
8. James E. Cross & Andrew Hamer, eds., Wulfstan's Canon Law Collection, pp. 160–61.
9. Thomas N. Hall, ‘Wulfstan’s Latin Sermons’, pp. 129–31.
10. Thomas N. Hall, ‘Wulfstan’s Latin Sermons’, pp. 115–20.
11. Thomas N. Hall, ‘Wulfstan’s Latin Sermons’, pp. 126–27.
12. James E. Cross, ‘A Newly-Identified Manuscript’, pp. 72–76.
13. James E. Cross, ‘Atto of Vercelli’, pp. 243–46
14. Thomas N. Hall, ‘Wulfstan’s Latin Sermons’, pp. 131–33.
15. C. di Sciacca, ‘Ubi sunt piece’, p. 226.
16. Thomas N. Hall, ‘Wulfstan’s Latin Sermons’, pp. 123–25.
17. Thomas N. Hall, ‘Wulfstan’s Latin Sermons’, pp. 127–28.
18. Thomas N. Hall, ‘Wulfstan’s Latin Sermons’, pp. 136–39.
19. Felix Liebermann, ed., Die Gesetze Der Angelsachsen vol 1; all Wulfstan's legal works, unless otherwise noted, are found in Liebermann's edition.
20. Roger Fowler, ed., The Canons of Edgar
21. James E. Cross & Andrew Hamer, eds., Wulfstan's Canon Law Collection
22. Karl Jost, ed., Die Institutes of Polity, Civil and Ecclesiastical
23. Bethurum, The Homilies of Wulfstan, pp. 377-78
24. Michael Swanton, ed., The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, p. 114
25. Michael Swanton, ed., The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, p. 121

References

Texts

• Wulfstan (1963). Whitelock, Dorothy, ed, ed. Sermo Lupi Ad Anglos (3rd ed.). London: Methuen.
• Wulfstan (1959). Karl Jost, ed. Die ‘Institutes of Polity, Civil and Ecclesiastical’: ein Werk Erzbischof Wulfstans von York. Swiss Studies in English; 47. Bern: A. Francke AG Verlag.
• Wulfstan (1957). Dorothy Bethurum, ed. The Homilies of Wulfstan. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
• Wulfstan (1883). Arthur Napier, ed. Sammlung der ihm Zugeschriebenen Homilien nebst Untersuchungen über ihre Echtheit. Berlin: Weidmann.
• Wulfstan (1999). Cross, James; Hamer, Andrew, eds. Wulfstan's Canon Law Collection. Anglo-Saxon Texts; I. Cambridge, UK: D. S. Brewer.

Studies

• Cross, James E. (1993). "Atto of Vercelli, De pressuris ecclesiasticis, Archbishop Wulfstan and "Wulfstan’s Commonplace Book"". Traditio 48: 237–46.
• Cross, James E. (1992). Townend, Matthew, ed. "A Newly-Identified Manuscript of Wulfstan’s "Commonplace Book", Rouen, Bibliothèque Municipale, MS. 1382 (U.109), fols. 173r–198v" ii: 63–83.
• di Sciacca, Claudia (2007). "An unpublished Ubi sunt piece in Wulfstan's "Commonplace Book": Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 190, pp. 94–96". In P. Lendinara, L. Lazzari, and M. A. D'Aronco, ed. Form and content of instruction in Anglo-Saxon England in the light of contemporary manuscript evidence. Turnhout: Brepols. pp. 93–139.
• Gatch, Milton McC. (1977). Preaching and Theology in Anglo-Saxon England: Ælfric and Wulfstan. Toronto and Buffalo: University of Toronto Press.
• Hall, Thomas N. (2004). "Wulfstan's Latin Sermons". In Matthew Townend, ed. Wulfstan, Archbishop of York: the Proceedings of the 2nd Alcuin Conference. Turnhout: Brepols. pp. 93–139.
• Jost, Karl (1950). Wulfstanstudien. Bern: A. Francke.
• Lerer, Seth (1999). "Old English and its Afterlife". In David Wallace, ed. The Cambridge History of Medieval English Literature. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-44420-9.
• Orchard, Adam (1991). "Wulstan the Homilist". In Michael Lapidge, ed. The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Anglo-Saxon England. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing. ISBN 978-0-631-22492-1.
• Strayer, Joseph R., ed. (1989). "Wulfstan of York". Dictionary of the Middle Ages. 1 & 12. New York: Scribner.
• Szarmach, Paul E., Tavormina, M. Teresa & Rosenthal, Joel T., ed. (1998). "Wulfstan of York". Medieval England: an encyclopedia. New York: Garland Publishers. ISBN 978-0-8240-5786-2.
• Whitelock, ed, Dorothy (1942). "Archbishop Wulfstan, Homilist and Statesman". Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 4th Series 24 (24): 25–45. doi:10.2307/3678467. JSTOR 3678467.
• 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.
• Whitelock, Dorothy (1937). "A Note on the Career of Wulfstan the Homilist". The English Historical Review 52: 460–65. doi:10.1093/ehr/LII.CCVII.460.
• Whitelock, Dorothy (1965). "Wulfstan at York". In Jess B. Bessinger & Robert P. Creed. Franciplegius: medieval and linguistic studies in honor of Francis Peabody Magoun Jr. New York. pp. 214–231.
• Wilcox, Jonathan (2000). Paul E. Szarmach, ed, ed. "The Wolf on Shepherds: Wulfstan, bishops, and the context of the Sermo Lupi ad Anglos". Old English Prose: basic readings (New York: Garland): 395–418.
• Wormald, Patrick (1978). "Æthelred the Lawmaker". In David Hill. Ethelred the Unready: papers from the Millenary Conference. BAR British Series; 59. Oxford: [British Archaeological Reports]. pp. 47–80.
• Wormald, Patrick (1999). "Archbishop Wulfstan and the Holiness of Society". In D. Pelteret, ed. Anglo-Saxon History: basic readings. New York. pp. 191–224.
• Wormald, Patrick (2004). "Archbishop Wulfstan: eleventh-century state-builder". In Matthew Townend, ed. Wulfstan, Archbishop of York: the proceedings of the 2nd Alcuin Conference. Turnhout. pp. 9–27.
• Wormald, Patrick (2000). The Making of English Law: King Alfred to the twelfth century: Legislation and its Limits 1. Oxford: Blackwell.
• Wormald, Patrick (2004). "Wulfstan (d. 1023)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 2008-03-30.