In the following essay, originally delivered as a speech in 1941, Whitelock outlines evidence concerning Wulfstan's life and literary activities in the early eleventh century.
When Wulfstan ...
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In the following essay, Wilcox considers the reasons for the steep decline in the rhetorical appeal of Wulfstan's homilies after the Norman Conquest of England.
Some Old English preaching te...
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In the following essay, Bethurum studies the collection of manuscripts known as Wulfstan's ‘commonplace book,’ suggesting Wulfstan's use of its mostly Latin contents in com...
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In the following excerpt from a lecture delivered on 11 May 1949, McIntosh identifies five principle styles of Old English writing, including the unique two-stress phrasing of Wulfstan's prose,...
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In the following excerpt, Greenfield and Calder briefly survey Wulfstan's major writings, largely comparing his work with that of his Anglo-Saxon contemporary Ælfric.
Wulfstan first a...
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In the following excerpt, Orchard investigates the principal elements of Wulfstan's homiletic style, maintaining that the “essence of Wulfstan's technique is repetition.”
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In the following essay, Wilcox concentrates on Wulfstan's relationship to the English massacre of Danish settlers in 1002 in order to discern the Archbishop's views on reconciliation and...
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Critical Essay by Dorothy Whitelock
