Dr. Stefan Jurasinski, PHD

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.

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.

REFEREED ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS (SELECTED)

• “Diis non detrahes: The Biblical ‘Gods’ and Alfredian Notions of Royal Government.” History of Political Thought 47 (2026): 1-36.
• “Alfred, the Bible, and the Authority of Written Law: Reassessing the Carolingian Inheritance.” In Rosamond McKitterick and Gerda Heydemann, eds., The Politics of interpretation: the Bible and the Formation of Legal Authority in the Early Middle Ages, Quellen und Forschungen zum Recht im Mittelalter (Ostfildern: Thorbecke/Verlagsgruppe Patmos, 2025), pp. 185-202.
• “The Laws of King Alfred (Domboc).” REOP: Resources for Old English Prose. Short Introductions to Old English Prose Texts. Ed. Francis Leneghan and Niamh Kehoe. University of Oxford. Online resource: https://roep.web.ox.ac.uk/short-introductions-alfredian-prose
• “Witnesses to the Witan? Some Unrecognized Legislative Idioms in Old English Verse.” Studies in Philology 122 (2025): 131-55.
• “The Domboc in the Laws of Edward the Elder.” In Frances Leneghan and Amy Faulkner, eds., The Age of Alfred: Rethinking English Literary Culture c. 850–950 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2024), 523-46
• “Making or Declaring Law? Legislative Intent and Privileged Speech in Anglo-Saxon England.” Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 53 (2023): 545-572. (Special issue: “Intention and Interpretation, Now and Then,” ed. James Simpson.)
• “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.

FORTHCOMING WORK

• “Augustine, Wilfrid, and the Priest’s ‘Oath’ in the Laws of Wihtræd.” In Stefan Esders and Gerda Heydemann, eds., Making Sense of the Oath in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. Religious Act, Social Bond, Holy Sacrament (Brepols: Turnhout, 2025), forthcoming.

Full CV here: https://hcommons.org/app/uploads/sites/1000360/bp-attachment-xprofile/CV-Jurasinski-PUBL-PDF-1.pdf