List of works by Wulfstan of York

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 (Latin, Bethurum Ia)^[2]
• De Anticristo (Old English, Bethurum Ib)
• Lectio Sancti Evangelii Secundum Matheum (Old English, Bethurum II)
• Secundum Lucam (Old English, Bethurum III)
• De Temporibus Anticristi (Old English, Bethurum IV)
• Secundum Marcum (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 (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 )
•  ?De coniugio antiquo (Latin; ed. Cross-Hamer^[8])
•  ?De conversione et penitentia et communione (Latin; ed. Hall^[9])
•  ?De decimis dandis (Latin; ed. Hall^[10])
•  ?De diversitate ordinum (Latin; ed. Elliot )
•  ?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 )
•  ?De pastore et praedicatore (Latin; ed. Elliot )
•  ?De rapinis ecclesiasticarum rerum (Latin; ed. Cross;^[13] in two versions)
•  ?De resurrectione mortuorum (Latin; ed. Hall^[14])
•  ?De veneratione sacerdotum (Latin; ed. Elliot ; 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]