Stefan Jurasinski

Education

• PhD, Indiana University
• BA, University of Maryland, College Park

Areas of Specialty

• Old, Middle, and Early Modern English
• Medieval and Early Modern Law 
• Medieval and Early Modern Political Philosophy
• Old Norse Law and Literature
• Old French Law and Literature
• Medieval and Renaissance Latin
• Medieval Christianity
• The History of Monarchy

Courses Taught

• Beowulf and Its World
• Literature of the Viking Age
• Chaucer
• British Literature I: Literature in English to 1750
• Shakespeare: Tragedies
• Shakespeare: Comedies and Romances
• Milton’s Paradise Lost
• Medieval Law and Literature
• History of the English Language

• Awards/Recognitions
  • American Council of Learned Societies, Fellowship for Collaborative Research (with Lisi Oliver): for research leave during the 2014-15 academic year.
  • International Society of Anglo-Saxonists Publication Prize 2013, for “best edition on any subject or in any subfield of the discipline” of the 2012-13 biennium (for Jurasinski and Fulk, The Old English Canons of Theodore).
  • Early English Laws Project/Institute of Historical Research, University of London: $3,000 bursary.
• Recent Publications

  BOOKS

  Monograph/Critical Edition

  • Stefan Jurasinski and Lisi Oliver. The Laws of Alfred: the Domboc and the Making of Anglo-Saxon Law. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021.

  Monographs

  • The Old English Penitentials and Anglo-Saxon Law. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015.
  • Ancient Privileges: “Beowulf,” Law, and the Making of Germanic Antiquity. Medieval European Studies 6. Morgantown: West Virginia University Press, 2006.

  Critical Editions

  • Stefan Jurasinski and R.D. Fulk, eds. The Old English Canons of Theodore. Edition with introduction, glossary, and commentary. Early English Text Society ss. 25. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 2012.
    • Winner, International Society of Anglo-Saxonists Publication Prize 2013, for “best edition on any subject or in any subfield of the discipline” of the 2011-13 biennium.

  Edited collections

  • Stefan Jurasinski and Andrew Rabin, eds. Languages of the Law: Essays in Memory of Lisi Oliver. Leuven: Peeters, 2019.
  • Stefan Jurasinski, Lisi Oliver and Andrew Rabin, eds. English Law Before Magna Carta: Felix Liebermann and “Die Gesetze der Angelsachsen.” Leiden: Brill, 2010.

  PERIODICAL

  • Editor, Year’s Work in Old English Studies (2016- )

  REFEREED ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS (SELECTED)

  • “English Law before the Conquest.” In The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Law and Literature. Edd. Candace Barrington and Sebastian Sobecki (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2019), pp. 3-16.
  • “Wulfstan, Episcopal Authority, and the Handbook for the Use of a Confessor.” In Old English Philology: Studies in Honour of R.D. Fulk. Edd. Leonard Neidorf, Rafael J. Pascual, and Tom Shippey (Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2016), pp. 215-32.
  • “Theodulfi Capitula in England.” Commissioned entry in The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Medieval British Literature. Edd. Robert Rouse and Siân Echard.
  • “Scribal Malpractice and the Study of Anglo-Saxon Law in the Twelfth Century.” In Textus Roffensis: Law, Language, and Libraries in Early Medieval England. Edd. Bruce O’Brien and Barbara Bombi (Turnhout: Brepols, 2015), pp. 83-101.
  • “Noxal Surrender, the Deodand, and the Laws of King Alfred.” Studies in Philology 111 (2014): 195-224.
  • “Violence, Penance, and Secular Law in Alfred’s Mosaic Prologue.” Haskins Society Journal 22 (2011): 25-42.
  • “Sanctuary, House-Peace, and the Traditionalism of Alfred’s Laws.” The Journal of Legal History 31 (2010): 129-147.
  • “The Old English Penitentials and the Law of Slavery.” In English Law Before Magna Carta: Felix Liebermann and “Die Gesetze der Angelsachsen,” edd. Stefan Jurasinski, Lisi Oliver and Andrew Rabin (Leiden: Brill, 2010), pp. 97-118.
  • “Madness and Responsibility in Anglo-Saxon England.” In Peace and Protection in the Middle Ages. Edd. David Rollason and T.B. Lambert (Toronto and Durham, England: Durham University Centre for Medieval Studies/Pontifical Institute for Mediaeval Studies, 2009), pp. 99-120.
  • “Caring for the Dead in The Fortunes of Men.” Philological Quarterly 86 (2007): 343-363. [Appeared in 2009.]
  • “Treason and the Charge of Sodomy in the Lai de Lanval.” Romance Quarterly 54 (2007): 290-302.
  • “Germanism, Slapping, and the Cultural Contexts of Æthelberht’s Code: A Reconsideration of Chapters 56-58.” Haskins Society Journal 18 (2006): 51-71. [Appeared in 2007.]
  • “Andrew Horn, Alfredian Apocrypha, and the Anglo-Saxon Names of the Mirror of Justices.” Journal of English and Germanic Philology 105 (2006): 540-563.
  • “The Ecstasy of Vengeance: Legal History, Old English Scholarship and the ‘Feud’ of Hengest.” Review of English Studies n.s. 55 (2004): 641-61.
  • “The Rime of King William and its Analogues.” Neophilologus 88 (2004): 131-144.
  • “Reddatur Parentibus: The Vengeance of the Family in Cnut’s Homicide Legislation.” Law and History Review 20 (2002): 157-180.