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archbishop of See also:York from 1003 until his See also:death in May 1023, and also See also:bishop of See also:Worcester from 1003 to 1o16, is generally held to be the author of a remarkable See also:homily in alliterative See also:English See also:prose. Its See also:title, taken from a See also:manuscript, is Lupi sermo ad Anglos, quando Dani maxime prosecuti sunt See also:cos, quod fuit See also:anno 1.914. It is an See also:appeal to all classes to repent in the prospect of the imminent See also:day of See also:judgment, and gives a vivid picture of the desperate See also:condition of See also:England in the See also:year of See also:King Aethelred II.'s See also:flight (1014). Of the many other homilies ascribed to Wulfstan very few are See also:authentic. Subsequent legislation, especially that of Canute, bears clear traces of his See also:influence. See the edition of his homilies by A. See also:Napier (See also:Berlin, 1883) ; also the same writer's fiber See also:die Werke See also:des altenglischen Erzbischofs Wulfstan (See also:Gottingen dissertation, 1882), and his See also:paper in An English See also:Miscellany (See also:Oxford, 1901, pp. 355 f.) ; also A. Brandl in H. See also:Paul's Grundriss der germanischen Philologie (2nd ed., 1901-1909), H. pp. 1110-1112.

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