Robin Chapman Stacey is Professor of History at the University of Washington. She is author of The Road to Judgment: From Custom to Court in Medieval Ireland and Wales and Dark Speech: The Performance of Law in Early Ireland, both available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.

Introduction. Reading Law
PART I. IMAGINED LANDSCAPES
Chapter 1. Britain and Wales
Chapter 2. Court and Country
PART II. BODY AND BAWDY
Chapter 3. Bodies and Nobodies
Chapter 4. Humor and the Household
Chapter 5. Sex and Marriage
PART III. VIOLENCE
Chapter 6. Dogs in the Nighttime
Conclusion. Law and the Imagination
List of Abbreviations
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments

Robin Chapman Stacey is Professor of History at the University of Washington. She is author of The Road to Judgment: From Custom to Court in Medieval Ireland and Wales and Dark Speech: The Performance of Law in Early Ireland, both available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.