English Law Before Magna Carta

Stefan Jurasinski, Ph.D. (2003) in English, Indiana University, is Associate Professor of English at The College at Brockport, State University of New York. His publications include Ancient Privileges: Beowulf, Law, and the Making of Germanic Antiquity (2006).Lisi Oliver, Ph.D. (1995) in Linguistics, Harvard University, is Professor of English at Louisiana State University. She is the author of The Beginnings of English Law (2002) and The Body Legal in Barbarian Law (2010).Andrew Rabin, Ph.D. (2005) in English, University of Chicago, is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Louisville. His work on Old English law and legal culture has appeared in numerous journals and collections, including Viator, JEGP, and Speculum.

"...Stefan Jurasinski, Lisi Oliver and Andrew Rabin deserve hearty congratulations for producing such a superb collection, one which engages the neophyte and challenges the experts. Unlike many such compilations, English Law Before Magna Carta contains no weak link; every chapter's thesis is clear, the arguments rigorous, the conclusions compelling. Brill too deserves praise for producing such an elegant and carefully edited volume. I recommend this book for any college library; it is certain to prove useful on many levels."Alison Williams Lewin, St Joseph's University, The Medieval Review 12.08.06

• Preface ... xi*Lisi OliverAbbreviations ... xiii1. Felix Liebermann and Die Gesetze der Angelsachsen ... 1*Andrew Rabin2. Felix Liebermann: A Selected Bibliography ... 9*Daniela FruscioneSection One: Felix Liebermann3. Liebermann’s Intellectual Milieu ... 15*Daniela Fruscione4. The Liebermann Library in Tokyo ... 27*Hideyuki ArimitsuSection Two: Language and Dating5. L1 Interference in the Editing Process: Felix Liebermann, the Gesetze and the German Language ... 43*Jürg Rainer Schwyter6. Localizing and Dating Old English Anonymous Prose, and How the Inherent Problems Relate to Anglo-Saxon Legislation ... 59*Robert D. Fulk7. The Dating of Quadripartitus Again ... 81*Richard SharpeSection Three: Anglo-Saxon Texts and Manuscripts8. The Old English Penitentials and the Law of Slavery ... 97*Stefan Jurasinski9. I Æthelred in Felix Liebermann’s Die Gesetze der Angelsachsen and in the Mise-en Page of Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 383 ... 119*Thom Gobbitt10. I–II Cnut: Wulfstan’s Summa? ... 137*Mary P. Richards11. Royal Protections and Private Justice: A Reassessment of Cnut’s ‘Reserved Pleas’ ... 157*T. B. Lambert12. Ritual Magic or Legal Performance? Reconsidering an Old English Charm Against Theft ... 177*Andrew RabinSection Four: Beyond Anglo-Saxon England13. Rethinking the Leges Henrici Primi ... 199*Nicholas Karn14. From the Leges to Glanvill: Legal Expertise and Legal Reasoning ... 221*John Hudson15. Laurence Nowell’s Old English Legal Glossary and His Study of Quadripartitus ... 251*Rebecca Brackmann16. “St. Edward’s Ghost”: The Cult of St. Edward and His Laws in English History ... 273*Janelle GreenbergBibliography ... 301Contributors ... 319Index Legum ... 323Index Manuscriptorum ... 325Index Nominorum ... 326