Wulfstan’s Commonplace Book Revised: The Structure and Development of “Block 7”, on Pastoral Privilege and Responsibility
Michael Elliot
The so-called Commonplace Book of Archbishop Wulfstan refers to a family manuscripts that preserves corpus miscellaneous material ostensibly assembled by in the first two decades eleventh century. Despite its immense importance field Anglo-Saxon studies, remains poorly understood as coherent textual entity own right. This study attempts shed some light on method production, principles organization, and development Book. In considering these issues, important aspects Wulfstan’s literary editorial habits are brought light, namely his proclivity for correcting others’ works, practice creating new works revising older ones, custom producing instructional libelli distribution among English priesthood. All exemplified series Latin texts subject pastoral privilege responsibility, three which - De veneratione sacerdotum, pastore et praedicatore, blasphemia edited here time.
The Journal of medieval Latin