The Canons of Edgar are a set of early eleventh-century ecclesiastical regulations produced in Anglo-Saxon England by Wulfstan, Archbishop of York.[1]
According to Fowler, the Canons of Edgar "was central in Wulfstan's programme of reform; it also demonstrates better than any other of his works the deliberateness with which he familiarized himself with the best canonical writings to provide a basis of accepted authority for [these] reforms."[2]
The CanonsofEdgar are a set of early eleventh-century ecclesiastical regulations produced in Anglo-Saxon England by Wulfstan, Archbishop of York. According...
S2CID 162322618. Dumville, David (1992). Wessex and England from Alfred to Edgar : six essays on political, cultural, and ecclesiastical revival. Woodbridge...
regulation, an impression which is similarly borne out by his CanonsofEdgar, a guide of ecclesiastical law also targeted at priests. The handbook is...
Rev. Canon. James Edgar Sheppard KCVO (10 August 1845 – 30 August 1921) was a Canonof Windsor from 1907 to 1921. Sheppard was born in 1845 in Worcester...
4th century. The reputation of this council drew to its canons further canons that came to be associated with the Synod of Elvira. Victor De Clercq notes...
Ecclesiastical History of the English People (Latin: Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum), written by Bede in about AD 731, is a history of the Christian Churches...
dialogue of riddles between Solomon, the king of Israel, and Saturn, identified in two of the poems as a prince of the Chaldeans. On account of earlier...
the Viking invasions. He wrote a number of clerical legal texts: Institutes of Polity and CanonsofEdgar. One of the earliest Old English texts in prose...
Fowler, ed., The CanonsofEdgar James E. Cross & Andrew Hamer, eds., Wulfstan's Canon Law Collection Karl Jost, ed., Die Institutes of Polity, Civil and...
project of the late Anglo-Saxon period that translated the six books of the Hexateuch into Old English, presumably under the editorship of Abbot Ælfric of Eynsham...
Edgar Allen (May 2, 1892 – February 3, 1943) was an American anatomist and physiologist. He is known for the discovery of estrogen and his role in creating...
The Wonders of the East (or The Marvels of the East) is an Old English prose text, probably written around AD 1000. It is accompanied by many illustrations...
Eadmer was nominated as Bishop of St Andrews, and he faced demands by King Alexander I of Scotland and the canonsof York that he should do obedience...
we have stripped the Church and her servants of honour and of wealth. Since King Edgar's death, the laws of England have greatly deteriorated. Sanctuaries...
English Boethius is an Old English translation/adaptation of the sixth-century Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius, dating from between c. 880 and 950...
Orosius is the name usually given by scholars to an adaption into Old English of the Latin Historiae adversus paganos by Paulus Orosius (fl. c. 400). Malcolm...
century Old English lapidary, a translation of older Latin glosses on the precious stones mentioned in the Book of Revelation. Peter Kitson, 'Lapidary traditions...
commentaries of the Early Middle Ages, and was cited by Claudius of Turin, Hrabanus Maurus, Angelomus of Luxeuil, Haimo of Auxerre, and Remigius of Auxerre...
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