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Valuable new insights into the multi-layered and multi-directional
relationship of law, literature, and social regulation in
pre-Conquest English society. Pre-Conquest English law was among
the most sophisticated in early medieval Europe. Composed largely
in the vernacular, it played a crucial role in the evolution of
early English identity and exercised a formative influence on the
development of the Common Law. However, recent scholarship has also
revealed the significant influence of these legal documents and
ideas on other cultural domains, both modern and pre-modern. This
collection explores the richness of pre-Conquest legal writing by
looking beyond its traditional codified form. Drawing on
methodologies ranging from traditional philology to legal and
literary theory, and from a diverse selection of contributors
offering a broad spectrum of disciplines, specialities and
perspectives, the essays examine the intersection between
traditional juridical texts - from law codes and charters to
treatises and religious regulation - and a wide range of literary
genres, including hagiography and heroic poetry. In doing so, they
demonstrate that the boundary that has traditionally separated
"law" from other modes of thought and writing is far more porous
than hitherto realized. Overall, the volume yields valuable new
insights into the multi-layered and multi-directional relationship
of law, literature, and social regulation in pre-Conquest English
society.
New insights into key texts and interpretive problems in the
history of England and Europe between the eighth and thirteenth
centuries. This volume of the Haskins Society Journal demonstrates
the Society's continued interest in a broad range of geographical
contexts and methodological approaches to medieval history.
Chapters include a much-needed reassessment of AElfthryth and her
place in the society and governance of tenth-century England, as
well as a comprehensive survey of the conceptualization of
excommunication in post-Carolingian Europe to c.1200. Further
essays explore aspects of the Norman world of southern Italy,
including the dynamics of political coalitions and kinship
networks, ethnic identity, and material culture. The Journal
continues to highlight close analyses of key primary sources,with a
study of Angevin kingship in the writings of Hugh of Lincoln and
Adam of Eynsham, and an examination of Ralph of Niger's Old
Testament exegesis and criticism of crusading in the late twelfth
century. A ground-breaking newstudy assesses the utility of
colonialism as a valid model for understanding the extraction of
sacred resources and relics from the crusader lands. The volume
closes with a crucial reconsideration of the agency and power of
medieval French peasants as attested in medieval cartularies,
opening new approaches for further research into this critical and
complex social group.
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