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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.
The most up-to-date research in the period from the Anglo-Saxons to
Angevins. The latest volume of the Haskins Society Journal presents
recent research on the Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Norman, and Angevin
worlds broadly conceived, and includes topics ranging from the
origins of Welsh law and the evidence for the development of the
chivalric tournament in the Norman chroniclers to the use of saints
to cement regional power, the reception of Dudo of St Quentin, the
regional divides in the Norman Kingdom of Sicily, and more. The
volume is particularly noteworthy for several studies that bring
together historical and archaeological evidence in new and
challenging ways. Contributors: DOMINIQUE BARTHELEMY, ROBIN CHAPMAN
STACEY, ROBIN FLEMING, BERNARD BACHRACH, AUSTIN MASON, ALECIA
ARCEO, PETER BURKHOLDER, PAUL OLDFIELD, KATHERINE LACK, SAMANTHA
HERRICK, NICOLE MARAFIOTI, DAVID BACHRACH
Essays examining how punishment operated in England, from c.600 to
the Norman Conquest. Anglo-Saxon authorities often punished
lawbreakers with harsh corporal penalties, such as execution,
mutilation and imprisonment. Despite their severity, however, these
penalties were not arbitrary exercises of power. Rather, theywere
informed by nuanced philosophies of punishment which sought to
resolve conflict, keep the peace and enforce Christian morality.
The ten essays in this volume engage legal, literary, historical,
and archaeological evidence to investigate the role of punishment
in Anglo-Saxon society. Three dominant themes emerge in the
collection. First is the shift from a culture of retributive feud
to a system of top-down punishment, in which penalties were imposed
by an authority figure responsible for keeping the peace. Second is
the use of spectacular punishment to enhance royal standing, as
Anglo-Saxon kings sought to centralize and legitimize their power.
Third is the intersectionof secular punishment and penitential
practice, as Christian authorities tempered penalties for material
crime with concern for the souls of the condemned. Together, these
studies demonstrate that in Anglo-Saxon England, capital and
corporal punishments were considered necessary, legitimate, and
righteous methods of social control. Jay Paul Gates is Assistant
Professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in The City
University of New York; Nicole Marafioti is Assistant Professor of
History and co-director of the Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Program at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. Contributors:
Valerie Allen, Jo Buckberry, Daniela Fruscione, Jay Paul Gates,
Stefan Jurasinski, Nicole Marafioti, Daniel O'Gorman, Lisi Oliver,
Andrew Rabin, Daniel Thomas.
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