The Canons of Edgar are a set of early eleventh-century ecclesiastical regulations produced in
Anglo-Saxon England
Anglo-Saxon England or Early Medieval England, existing from the 5th to the 11th centuries from the end of Roman Britain until the Norman conquest in 1066, consisted of various Anglo-Saxon kingdoms until 927, when it was united as the Kingdom o ...
by
Wulfstan, Archbishop of York.
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
hesereforms."
Manuscripts
One version of the Canons — labelled version "D" — can be found in an eleventh-century manuscript,
Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
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MS. 201, where it has been copied out by hand on pages 97 to 101.
Editions and translations
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*Fowler, Roger (1972). Wulfstan's Canons of Edgar. London: Oxford University Press.
*Translation: Andrew Rabin, ''The Political Writings of Archbishop Wulfstan of York'' (Manchester, 2015), pp. 85-100
References
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Old English literature
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