Law Codes

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  1. Theodore M. Andersson and William Ian Miller, Law and Literature in Medieval Iceland, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1989.
  2. Brink, Stefan. ‘The Creation of a Scandinavian Provincial Law: How was it done?’ Historical Research 86 (No. 233, 2013): 432 – 442.
  3. Jay Paul Gates and Nicole Marafioti (eds.), Capital and Corporal Punishment in Anglo-Saxon England, Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2014.
  4. Guy Halsall, ed. Violence and Society in the Early Medieval West. Woodbridge: Boydell, 1998.
  5. S.E. Kelly (ed.), Charters of Malmesbury Abbey (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005),
  6. A. G. Kennedy, ‘Cnut’s Law Code of 1018,’ Anglo-Saxon England 11 (1982): 57 – 81.
  7. Guy A. E. Morris, ‘Violence and Late Viking Age Scandinavian Social Order,’ in Violence and Society in the Early Medieval West, edited by Guy Halsall, 141 – 56. Woodbridge: Boydell, 1998.
  8. John D. Niles, ‘The Myth of Feud in Anglo-Saxon England,’ The Journal of English and German Philology 114 (No. 2, 2015): 163 – 200.
  9. Katherine O’Brien O’Keeffe, ‘Body and Law in Late Anglo-Saxon England,’ Anglo-Saxon England 27 (1998): 209 – 232.
  10. Lisi Oliver, The Body Legal in Barbarian Law, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2011.
  11. Lisi Oliver, ‘Protecting the Body in Early Medieval Law,’ in Peace and Protection in the Middle Ages, edited by T.B. Lambert and D.W. Rollason, 60 – 77. Durham: Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2009.
  12. Gale R. Owen-Crocker and Brian W. Schneider (eds), Kingship, Legislation and Power in Anglo-Saxon England, Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2013.
  13. Mary P. Richards, ‘The Body as Text in Early Anglo-Saxon Law,’ in Naked Before God: Uncovering the Body In Anglo-Saxon England, edited by Benjamin C. Withers and Jonathon Wilcox, 97 – 115. Morgantown: West Virginia University Press, 2003.
  14. Pauline Stafford, ‘The Laws of Cnut and the History of Anglo-Saxon Royal Promises,’ Anglo-Saxon England 10 (1980): 173 – 190.
  15. Klaus van Eickels, ‘Gendered Violence: Castration and Blinding as Punishment for Treason in Normandy and Anglo-Norman England,’ Gender & History 16 (No. 3, 2004): 588 – 602.
  16. Dorothy Whitelock, ‘Wulfstan’s Authorship of Cnut’s Laws,’ English Historical Review 70 (No. 274, 1955): 72 – 85.
  17. Dorothy Whitelock, ‘Wulfstan Cantor and Anglo-Saxon Law,’ in Nordica et Anglica: Studies in Honor of Stefan Einarsson, edited by Alan H. Orrick, 83 – 92, The Hague: Mouton, 1968.
  18. A. Woodman, ed., Charters of Northern Houses, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012)
  19. Patrick Wormald, ‘Lex Scripta and Verbum Regis: Legislation and Germanic Kingship, from Euric to Cnut,’ in Early Medieval Kingship, edited by P.H. Sawyer and I.N Wood, 105 – 138, Leeds: University of Leeds, 1977.
  20. Patrick Wormald, The Making of English Law: King Alfred to the Twelfth Century, Vol. 1: Legislation and its Limits, Oxford: Blackwell, 1999.