Wulfstan, Archbishop of York, -1023
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Lupus, -1023
Wulfstan, Archbishop of York, d. 1023
Wulfstan, Bishop of London, -1023
Wulfstan, Bishop of Worcester, -1023
Wulfstan II, Abp. of York, d. 1023
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Wulfstan II, Abp. of York, d. 1023
Wulfstan, Archbishop of York, d. 1023
Sources
found: Author's The homilies of Wulfstan, 1957.
found: Three lives of the last Englishmen, 1984:CIP galley (Wulfstan)
found: 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)
found: 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)
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1980-07-25: new
2023-08-29: revised
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