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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
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