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Wulfstan and His World. Edited by Julia S. Barrow and N. P. Brooks.
Studies in Early Medieval Britain, 4. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Company,
2005. Pp. xix + 242; 50 illustrations. $99.95.
Over the past two decades, conferences have marked assorted anniversaries
for the grandees of the late-Anglo-Saxon church, with each occasion yielding
a volume of essays: Bishop Æthelwold: His Career and Influence
(1988); St. Dunstan: His Life, Times, and Cult (1992); St.
Oswald of Worcester: Life and Influence (1996); Wulfstan, Archbishop
of York (2004); and St.Wulfsige and Sherborne (2005). Now
joining their ranks, the book under review also began as lectures delivered
at symposia in 1995 commemorating the nine-hundredth anniversary of the
death of St. Wulfstan (II), bishop of Worcester from 1062 until his death
in 1095. Though ten years have separated the symposia from publication
of the proceedings, the result, St. Wulfstan and His World, proves
to have been worth the wait.
Christopher A. Jones
Ohio State University
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