Sermo Lupi ad Anglos

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The Sermo Lupi ad Anglos, or "Sermon of Wolf to the English," was a significant work by Wulfstan, the Archbishop of York. Written around 1014, it is an impassioned call for repentance and reform directed at the English people. Wulfstan, a prominent figure during a turbulent period of Danish invasions and political instability, used his distinctive rhetorical style to denounce the moral failings of his time. His writings, including this sermon, were highly influential and contributed to the preservation of Anglo-Saxon civilization amidst the Danish conquest.12

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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 in 1014, after Aethelred had been driven out by the Danish invasions of King Sweyn.
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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 in 1014, after Aethelred had been driven out by the Danish invasions of King Sweyn.
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English literature
Late 10th- and 11th-century prose
…a number of homilies, including Sermo Lupi ad Anglos (“Wulf’s Address to the English”), a ferocious denunciation of the morals of his time. To judge from the number of extant manuscripts, these two writers were enormously popular. Byrhtferth of Ramsey wrote several Latin works and the Enchiridion, a textbook on…
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…a number of homilies, including Sermo Lupi ad Anglos (“Wulf’s Address to the English”), a ferocious denunciation of the morals of his time. To judge from the number of extant manuscripts, these two writers were enormously popular. Byrhtferth of Ramsey wrote several Latin works and the Enchiridion, a textbook on…
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