List of works by Wulfstan of York explained

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 http://webpages.ursinus.edu/jlionarons/wulfstan/Iaframe.html (Latin, Bethurum Ia)^[2]
De Anticristo http://webpages.ursinus.edu/jlionarons/wulfstan/Ibframe.html (Old English, Bethurum Ib)
Lectio Sancti Evangelii Secundum Matheum http://webpages.ursinus.edu/jlionarons/wulfstan/IIframe.html (Old English, Bethurum II)
Secundum Lucamhttp://webpages.ursinus.edu/jlionarons/wulfstan/IIIframe.html (Old English, Bethurum III)
De Temporibus Anticristi http://webpages.ursinus.edu/jlionarons/wulfstan/IVframe.html (Old English, Bethurum IV)
Secundum Marcum http://webpages.ursinus.edu/jlionarons/wulfstan/Vframe.html (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 https://archive.today/20121214172512/http://english3.fsu.edu/~wulfstan/noframes.html (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 https://web.archive.org/web/20110629035019/http://individual.utoronto.ca/michaelelliot/manuscripts/texts/transcriptions/deblasphemia.pdf)
?De coniugio antiquo (Latin; ed. Cross-Hamer^[8])
?Latin: De conversione et penitentia et communione (Latin; ed. Hall^[9])
?De decimis dandis (Latin; ed. Hall^[10])
?De diversitate ordinum (Latin; ed. Elliot http://individual.utoronto.ca/michaelelliot/manuscripts/texts/transcriptions/dediversitateordinum.pdf)
?Latin: 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 http://individual.utoronto.ca/michaelelliot/manuscripts/texts/transcriptions/depencomm.pdf)
?De pastore et praedicatore (Latin; ed. Elliot https://web.archive.org/web/20110629035013/http://individual.utoronto.ca/michaelelliot/manuscripts/texts/transcriptions/depastore.pdf)
?De rapinis ecclesiasticarum rerum (Latin; ed. Cross;^[13] in two versions)
?De resurrectione mortuorum (Latin; ed. Hall^[14])
?De veneratione sacerdotum (Latin; ed. Elliot https://web.archive.org/web/20110629034949/http://individual.utoronto.ca/michaelelliot/manuscripts/texts/transcriptions/deveneratione.pdf; 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]

References

Texts

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

Studies

Cross. James E.. Traditio . Atto of Vercelli, De pressuris ecclesiasticis, Archbishop Wulfstan and "Wulfstan's Commonplace Book" . 1993 . 237–46 . 48. 10.1017/S0362152900012927. 147881610.
Cross. James E.. Townend, Matthew. A Newly-Identified Manuscript of Wulfstan's "Commonplace Book", Rouen, Bibliothèque Municipale, MS. 1382 (U.109), fols. 173r–198v . 1992 . 63–83 . ii.
Encyclopedia: di Sciacca. Claudia. P. Lendinara . L. Lazzari . M. A. D'Aronco . Form and content of instruction in Anglo-Saxon England in the light of contemporary manuscript evidence . An unpublished Ubi sunt piece in Wulfstan's "Commonplace Book": Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 190, pp. 94–96 . 2007 . Brepols . Turnhout . 93–139.
Book: Gatch, Milton McC. . Preaching and Theology in Anglo-Saxon England: Ælfric and Wulfstan . registration . 1977 . University of Toronto Press . Toronto and Buffalo . 9780802053473 .
Encyclopedia: Hall . Thomas N. . Matthew Townend . Wulfstan, Archbishop of York: the Proceedings of the 2nd Alcuin Conference . Wulfstan's Latin Sermons . 2004 . Brepols . Turnhout . 93–139 .
Book: Jost, Karl . Wulfstanstudien . Bern . A. Francke . 1950.
Encyclopedia: Lerer . Seth . David Wallace . The Cambridge History of Medieval English Literature . Old English and its Afterlife . 1999 . Cambridge University Press . Cambridge, UK . 0-521-44420-9 .
Encyclopedia: Orchard. Adam . Michael Lapidge . Michael Lapidge . The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Anglo-Saxon England . Wulstan the Homilist . 1991 . Blackwell Publishing. Malden, MA. 978-0-631-22492-1 .
Encyclopedia: 1989 . Wulfstan of York . Strayer, Joseph R. . Dictionary of the Middle Ages . Scribner . New York. 1 & 12 .
Encyclopedia: 1998. Wulfstan of York . Medieval England: an encyclopedia . Garland Publishers . New York . Szarmach, Paul E. . Tavormina, M. Teresa . Rosenthal, Joel T. . 978-0-8240-5786-2 .
Whitelock . Dorothy . Transactions of the Royal Historical Society . Fourth Series . Archbishop Wulfstan, Homilist and Statesman . 24 . 1942 . 25–45 . 10.2307/3678467 . 24 . 3678467. Whitelock . D. . 162930449 .
Book: Whitelock, Dorothy . Councils and Synods, with other documents relating to the English Church, Volume 1: A.D. 871-1204 (pt. 1: 871-1066) . Clarendon Press . Oxford . 1981 .
Whitelock . Dorothy . The English Historical Review . A Note on the Career of Wulfstan the Homilist . 1937 . 460–65 . 10.1093/ehr/LII.CCVII.460 . 52.
Encyclopedia: Whitelock . Dorothy . Wulfstan at York . Franciplegius: medieval and linguistic studies in honor of Francis Peabody Magoun Jr. . Jess B. Bessinger . Robert P. Creed. New York . 1965 . 214–231.
Encyclopedia: Wilcox . Jonathan . Old English Prose: basic readings . Paul E. Szarmach . The Wolf on Shepherds: Wulfstan, bishops, and the context of the Sermo Lupi ad Anglos . New York. Garland . 2000 . 395–418 .
Encyclopedia: Wormald . Patrick . Æthelred the Lawmaker . Ethelred the Unready: papers from the Millenary Conference . David Hill . Oxford. [British Archaeological Reports]. BAR British Series; 59. 1978 . 47–80 .
Encyclopedia: Wormald . Patrick . Archbishop Wulfstan and the Holiness of Society . Anglo-Saxon History: basic readings . D. Pelteret . New York . 1999 . 191–224 .
Encyclopedia: Wormald . Patrick . Archbishop Wulfstan: eleventh-century state-builder . Wulfstan, Archbishop of York: the proceedings of the 2nd Alcuin Conference. Matthew Townend. Turnhout. 2004. 9–27.
Book: The Making of English Law: King Alfred to the twelfth century: Legislation and its Limits. 1 . Oxford . 2000 . Wormald, Patrick . Blackwell .
Encyclopedia: Wormald . Patrick. Patrick Wormald . Oxford Dictionary of National Biography . Wulfstan (d. 1023) . 2008-03-30 . 2004 . Oxford University Press . 10.1093/ref:odnb/30098.

Notes and References

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 Bethurum, The Homilies of Wulfstan; all homilies, unless otherwise noted, are found in Bethurum.
Arthur Napier, Wulfstan: Sammlung der ihm zugeschriebenen Homilien
Thomas N. Hall, ‘Wulfstan’s Latin Sermons’, pp. 110–14.
James E. Cross, ‘A Newly-Identified Manuscript’, pp. 78–80.
Thomas N. Hall, ‘Wulfstan’s Latin Sermons’, pp. 120–23.
Thomas N. Hall, ‘Wulfstan’s Latin Sermons’, pp. 133–36.
James E. Cross & Andrew Hamer, eds., Wulfstan's Canon Law Collection, pp. 160–61.
Thomas N. Hall, ‘Wulfstan’s Latin Sermons’, pp. 129–31.
Thomas N. Hall, ‘Wulfstan’s Latin Sermons’, pp. 115–20.
Thomas N. Hall, ‘Wulfstan’s Latin Sermons’, pp. 126–27.
James E. Cross, ‘A Newly-Identified Manuscript’, pp. 72–76.
James E. Cross, ‘Atto of Vercelli’, pp. 243–46
Thomas N. Hall, ‘Wulfstan’s Latin Sermons’, pp. 131–33.
C. di Sciacca, ‘Ubi sunt piece’, p. 226.
Thomas N. Hall, ‘Wulfstan’s Latin Sermons’, pp. 123–25.
Thomas N. Hall, ‘Wulfstan’s Latin Sermons’, pp. 127–28.
Thomas N. Hall, ‘Wulfstan’s Latin Sermons’, pp. 136–39.
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]
Michael Swanton, ed., The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, p. 121