Wulfstan, Archbishop of York, -1023
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- Britannica.com, academic edition, December 16, 2015(Wulfstan, pseudonym Lupus (died May 28, 1023, York, England); the author of many Old English homilies, treatises, and law codes; he was a product of the Benedictine revival and probably had some early connection with one of the Fenland abbeys, but nothing is known of him with certainty before he became a bishop; from 1008 he was adviser to the kings Aethelred and Canute and drafted their laws; he was interested in problems of government and the arrangement of society, as is shown by the work known as Institutes of Polity; he was also deeply concerned with the reform of the church; his most famous work, the Sermo Lupi ad Anglos (“Sermon of Wolf to the English”), is an impassioned call to his countrymen to repentance and reform)
- Encylopædia. Britannica, 1977(Wulfstan, Archbishop of York, 1002-1023; Bishop of Worcester, 1002-1016; Bishop of London, 996-1002; sometimes used the nom de plume Lupus)
- Author's The homilies of Wulfstan, 1957.
- Three lives of the last Englishmen, 1984:CIP galley (Wulfstan)
- Ency. Brit., c1977(Wulfstan, Archbishop of York, 1002-23; Bishop of Worcester, 1002-16; Bishop of London, 996-1002; sometimes used the nom de plume Lupus)
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Wulfstan (sometimes Wulfstan II or Lupus; died 28 May 1023) was an English Bishop of London, Bishop of Worcester, and Archbishop of York. He is thought to have begun his ecclesiastical career as a Benedictine monk. He became the Bishop of London in 996. In 1002 he was elected simultaneously to the diocese of Worcester and the archdiocese of York, holding both in plurality until 1016, when he relinquished Worcester; he remained archbishop of York until his death. It was perhaps while he was at London that he first became well known as a writer of sermons, or homilies, on the topic of Antichrist. In 1014, as archbishop, he wrote his most famous work, a homily which he titled the Sermo Lupi ad Anglos, or the Sermon of the Wolf to the English. Besides sermons Wulfstan was also instrumental in drafting law codes for both kings Æthelred the Unready and Cnut the Great of England. He is considered one of the two major writers of the late Anglo-Saxon period in England. After his death in 1023, miracles were said to have occurred at his tomb, but attempts to have him declared a saint never bore fruit.
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