Law, Literature, and Social Regulation in Early Medieval England

Andrew Rabin is a Professor in the English Department at the University of Louisville. Anya Adair is Assistant Professor in law and humanities at the University of Hong Kong. Anya Adair is Assistant Professor in law and humanities at the University of Hong Kong. Andrew Rabin is a Professor in the English Department at the University of Louisville. MARY ELIZABETH BLANCHARD is an early medieval historian at Ave Maria University specializing in tenth- and eleventh-century England with specific focus on prosopography and activities of the secular and ecclesiastical elites.

Introduction: Law as Literature/Literature as Law
Andrew Rabin and Anya Adair

Part I. Law and Literature: Normative Alliances

1. The Alfredian Prose Psalms and a Legal English Identity
Jay Paul Gates

2. Cynescipe, Bishop Æthelwold, and the Spread of Legal Language
Arendse Lund

3. Traces and Supplements: Literary Prose in Sawyer 404
Scott T. Smith

4. The Curious Incident of the Monster in the Night-Time: Circumstantial Evidence in Law and Poetry
Anya Adair

5. Uncertain Judgment: The Ordeal in Hagiography and Law
Andrew Rabin

Part II. Literature and Law: Normative Renewals

6. The Historical and Literary Context of the Legatine Capitulary of 786 in England and Abroad
Kristen Carella


7. Liturgy as Law: Coronation Ordines in Tenth-Century England
Nicole Marafioti

8. The Passive Ealdorman? Juxtaposing the later Old English Law Codes and the 'Dispute Narratives'
Mary Elizabeth Blanchard

9. Royal Reeves, Royal Authority, and the 'Holy Society' in Archbishop Wulfstan's Writings
Chelsea Shields-Más

10. Laying Down the Law? Bishop Headda's Visit to Saint Guthlac
Stefan Jurasinski

11. The Terms of Hypocrisy in Early English Law and Literature: Ælfric and Wulfstan
Sherif Abdelkarim