‘There is much more of interest that can be gleaned from these texts. Scholars of social, cultural, legal, religious, and political phenomena will find many clues to the early history of such topics, to just name a few, as penance, marriage, tithes, wergild, oaths, sanctuary, and slavery. And for those interested in broader social and political ideas, Rabin is undoubtedly ... Read moreright that Wulfstan's writings offer one of the most ambitious attempts to describe a coherent "political theology" known from Anglo-Saxon England (vii). The clarity of the translations and the relatively modest length of the book will also make it appropriate for use in the undergraduate classroom. These texts will allow readers to come to their own conclusions about Rabin's claims that Wulfstan was "a political thinker of the first order," and that his Institutes of Polity "represents the most sophisticated work of English political theory before John of Salisbury's Policraticus" (15-16).’ Richard Keyser, University of Wisconsin-Madison, The Medieval Review ‘Rabin has provided handy translations of works by Wulfstan that are ill-served by or excluded from Bethurum’s standard edition of the homilies or Liebermann’s of the law codes. The resulting book is a superb scholarly presentation of an easy-to-overlook corpus.’ Jonathan Wilcox, University of Iowa, Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies, 92.1
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