Stefan Jurasinski is Associate Professor of English at the College at Brockport, State University of New York. His work has appeared in Law and History Review, the Journal of Legal History, the Review of English Studies, and other periodicals. He is the co-editor of The Old English Canons of Theodore (with R. D. Fulk, 2012), which won the Publication Prize of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists for the best edition of the 2012-13 biennium. He was an American Council of Learned Societies fellow for the 2014-15 academic year.
1. The Old English penitentials and their reception
2. Legal change, vernacular penitentials, and the chronology of Old English prose
3. The law of the estate: bishops, masters, and slaves
4. The law of the household: marriage and sexuality
5. Caring for the body: law, penitentials, and English 'sick-maintenance'
6. Caring for the mind: pollution and mental liability
Conclusion: vernacular penitentials and secular lawmaking.
