Wulfstan, Archbishop of York, -1023

LC control no.	n 50027889
Descriptive conventions	rda
LC classification	PR1795 PR1799
Personal name heading	Wulfstan, Archbishop of York, -1023 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	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
Associated country	England
Death date	1023-05-28
Place of death	York (England)
Field of activity	Sermons Law Church renewal
Affiliation	Catholic Church
Profession or occupation	Bishops Authors
Found in	Author's The homilies of Wulfstan, 1957. Three lives of the last Englishmen, 1984: CIP galley (Wulfstan) 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) 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)
Associated language	lat ang