Wulfstan’s <i>Sermo Lupi ad Anglos</i> as Political Performance: 16 February 1014 and Beyond

Wilcox, Jonathan

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“…A number of essays explore related themes in Wulfstan's works, but space does not permit their full examination. 70 Surprisingly, only a few address the cults and vitae of the saint-bishops, Wulfsige and Wulfstan the younger. Without a doubt, the most important of these is Rosalind Love's new edition and translation of the Life of St Wulfsige written by Goscelin of Saint-Bertin in the late 1070s, 71 the context for which is established in Barbara Yorke's short discussion of hagiography in Wessex.…”

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Review article: Recent approaches to late Anglo‐Saxon episcopal culture

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“…19 As I argue throughout this work, ecclesiastics tended to see the monarchy as critically interconnected with the Church, and a divinely appointed institution. Sedulius and others understood the king's primary duty to be the protection and organization of the Church: 17 Giancarlo, "Mirror, Mirror," [35][36] provides numerous examples of advice literature, including "texts of the De regimine tradition proper in its primary Aristotelian/Aegidian and Thomistic/Ptolomaic strains; texts of the 'dicts and sayings' tradition of wisdom-literature and proverb collections; conduct literature and the literature of bodily health and physiognomy, especially the many version of the pseudo-Aristotelian Secretum Secretorum that were among the most popular texts of the Middle Ages; exempla and history . .…”

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“…A modern edition of this work is H. Paul F. Mercken, ed., The Greek Commentaries on the Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle in the Latin Translation of Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln (Leuven, Belgium: Leuven University Press, 1991). 23 Giancarlo,"Mirror,Mirror," 35. ignored. This is understandable.…”

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“…It is the purpose of this dissertation to answer these questions, to take seemingly abstract moralizing, historical narrative, and biographical accounts, and contextualize it within local political situations. Anglo-Saxon ecclesiastics were, despite being prohibited by canon law, 35 intensely involved in politics and power struggles. At first these men worked hard to gain influence in royal government, then later became part of the official council.…”

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“…By the time of Alfred, Church and state were practically one unit, creating what 33 Trousdale, "Being Everywhere at Once," 278 34 Robert Lane, Shepheard's Devises: Edmund Spenser's "Shepheardes Calender" and the Institutions of Elizabethan Society (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1993), 60. 35 Trousdale, "Being Everywhere at Once," 279-80. Specifically, the tenth canon of the 786 Legantine Decrees "prohibits bishops from attending secular councils."…”

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