Description: Essays examining how punishment operated in England, from c.600 to the Norman Conquest.
Brief description: Andrew Rabin is a Professor in the English Department at the University of Louisville.
Review Quotes: [T]his volume provides a fresh and important multi-disciplinary approach to the topic, and will be the foundation for future research in the same area. It has much to offer any historian interested in the Middle Ages, and particularly the conjunctures of law, political power, and archaeology.-- "AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW"