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 LawAndrew Rabin and Anya Adair Part I. Law and Literature: Normative Alliances 1. The Alfredian Prose Psalms and a Legal English IdentityJay Paul Gates 2. Cynescipe, Bishop Æthelwold, and the Spread of Legal LanguageArendse Lund 3. Traces and Supplements: Literary Prose in Sawyer 404Scott T. Smith 4. The Curious Incident of the Monster in the Night-Time: Circumstantial Evidence in Law and PoetryAnya Adair 5. Uncertain Judgment: The Ordeal in Hagiography and LawAndrew Rabin Part II. Literature and Law: Normative Renewals 6. The Historical and Literary Context of the Legatine Capitulary of 786 in England and AbroadKristen Carella 7. Liturgy as Law: Coronation Ordines in Tenth-Century EnglandNicole 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 WritingsChelsea Shields-Más 10. Laying Down the Law? Bishop Headda's Visit to Saint GuthlacStefan Jurasinski 11. The Terms of Hypocrisy in Early English Law and Literature: Ælfric and WulfstanSherif Abdelkarim

An important contribution to the study of the interaction of law and literature in pre-Conquest England.