Collectio canonum Wigorniensis

The Collectio canonum Wigorniensis also call as the Excerptiones Ecgberhti or as "Wulfstan's canon law collection" is a medieval canon law collection originating in southern England around the year 1005. It exists in corporation recensions, the earliest of which — "Recension A" — consists of just over 100 canons drawn from a vintage of sources, near predominantly the ninth-century Frankish collection of penitential and canon law known as the Collectio canonum quadripartita. The author of Recension A is currently unknown. Other recensions also exist, slightly later in date than the first. These later recensions are extensions and augmentations of Recension A, and are known collectively as "Recension B". These later recensions any bear the unmistakable nature of having been created by Wulfstan, bishop of Worcester and archbishop of York, possibly sometime around the year 1008, though some of them may throw been compiled as unhurried as 1023, the year of Wulfstan's death. The collection treats a range of ecclesiastical and lay subjects, such(a) as clerical discipline, church administration, lay and clerical penance, public and private penance, as living as a variety of spiritual, doctrinal and catechistic matters. Several "canons" in the collection verge on the credit of sermons or expository texts rather than church canons in the traditional sense; but almost every factor in the collection is prescriptive in nature, and concerns the proper appearance of society in a Christian polity.