Law, literature, and social regulation in early medieval England /

Valuable new insights into the multi-layered and multi-directional relationship of law, literature, and social regulation in pre-Conquest English society.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gates, Jay Paul (Autor)
Otros Autores: Adair, Anya (Editor ), Rabin, Andrew (Editor ), Lund, Arense (Contribuidor), Smith, Scott (Contribuidor), Carella, Kristen (Contribuidor), Marafioti, Nicole, 1978- (Contribuidor), Blanchard, Mary Elizabeth, 1984- (Contribuidor), Shields-Más, Chelsea (Contribuidor), Jurasinski, Stefan (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Woodbridge, Suffolk ; Rochester, NY : Boydell & Brewer, 2023.
Colección:Anglo-Saxon studies ; 47.
Temas:
To 1500
English literature > Old English, ca. 450-1100 > History and criticism.
Law and literature > England > History > To 1500.
Social norms in literature.
Social control > Great Britain > History.
Social norms > Great Britain > History.
Social norms in literature
English literature > Old English
Law and literature.
Social control.
Social norms.
England
Great Britain.
Criticism, interpretation, etc
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Law as literature/literature as law
  • Part I. Law and literature: normative alliances
  • 1. The Alfredian prose psalms and a legal English identity
  • 2. Cynescipe, Bishop Æthelwold, and the spread of legal language
  • 3. Traces and supplements:literary prose in Sawyer 404
  • 4. The curious incident of the monster in the night-time
  • 5. Uncertain judgment: the ordeal in hagiography and law
  • Part II. Literature and law: normative renewals
  • 6. The historical and literary context of the Legatine Capitulary of 786
  • 7. Liturgy as law: coronation ordines in tenth-century England
  • 8. Juxtaposing the later old English law codes and the "Dispute Narratives"
  • 9. Royal reeves, Royal authority, and the "Holy Society" in Wulfstan's writings
  • 10. Laying down the law? Bishop Headda's visit to Saint Guthlac
  • 11. The terms of hypocrisy in early English law and literature
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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