caa a22 4500 388048476 CHVBK 20180307125044.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199812 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0263675100004865 doi S0263675100004865 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0263675100004865 O'Keeffe Katherine O'Brien University of Notre Dame Body and law in late Anglo-Saxon England [Elektronische Daten] [Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe] This article explores some textual dimensions of what I argue is a crucial moment in the history of the Anglo-Saxon subject. For purposes of temporal triangulation, I would locate this moment between roughly 970 and 1035, though these dates function merely as crude, if potent, signposts: the years 970×973 mark the adoption of the Regularis concordia, the ecclesiastical agreement on the practice of a reformed (and markedly continental) monasticism, and 1035 marks the death of Cnut, the Danish king of England, whose laws encode a change in the understanding of the individual before the law. These dates bracket a rich and chaotic time in England: the apex of the project of reform, a flourishing monastic culture, efflorescence of both Latin and vernacular literatures, remarkable manuscript production, but also the renewal of the Viking wars that seemed at times to be signs of the apocalypse and that ultimately would put a Dane on the throne of England. These dates point to two powerful and continuing sets of interests in late Anglo-Saxon England, ecclesiastical and secular, monastic and royal, whose relationships were never simple. This exploration of the subject in Anglo-Saxon England as it is illuminated by the law draws on texts associated with each of these interests and argues their interconnection. Its point of departure will be the body - the way it is configured, regarded, regulated and read in late Anglo-Saxon England. It focuses in particular on the use to which the body is put in juridical discourse: both the increasing role of the body in schemes of inquiry and of punishment and the ways in which the body comes to be used to know and control the subject. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1998 Anglo-Saxon England Cambridge University Press 27(1998-12), 209-232 0263-6751 27<209 1998 27 ASE https://doi.org/10.1017/S0263675100004865 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0263675100004865 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- O'Keeffe Katherine O'Brien University of Notre Dame NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Anglo-Saxon England Cambridge University Press 27(1998-12), 209-232 0263-6751 27<209 1998 27 ASE CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge