The Laws of Alfred

Stefan Jurasinski is Professor of English at State University College, Brockport, New York. He is the author of The Old English Penitentials and Anglo-Saxon Law (Cambridge, 2015) and, with R. D. Fulk, The Old English Canons of Theodore (2012). With Andrew Rabin, he edited Languages of the Law in Early Medieval England: Essays in Memory of Lisi Oliver. Lisi Oliver, author of The Beginnings of English Law (2013) and The Body Legal and Barbarian Law (2011), was Houston Alumni Professor of English and Distinguished Research Master at Louisiana State University. With Andrew Rabin and Stefan Jurasinski, she edited English Law Before Magna Carta.

• List of Figures; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; Preface; Part I.: 1. The emergence of written law in early England; 2. Legal erudition in seventh- and ninth-century Wessex; 3. Reshaping tradition: oaths, ordeals, and the 'innovations' of the domboc; 4. The transmission of the domboc: old English manuscripts and other early witnesses; 5. Reception, editorial history, and interpretative legacies; Part II. Editions: 6. Rubrics in Cambridge, Corpus Christi College MSS 173 and 383; 7. Alfred's prologue; 8. The laws of Alfred; 9. The laws of Ine; Appendix I: handlist of prior editions; Bibliography; Index.

'Written by two leading specialists in early medieval legal studies, this book offers a rigorous re-evaluation of West Saxon law in its historical context, together with a new edition that will undoubtedly become a primary source of reference in the field.' Carole Hough, University of Glasgow