Jay

Gates

Edited Collections

Remembering the Medieval Present: Generative Uses of England’s Pre-Conquest Past, 10th to 15th Centuries. Ed. Jay Paul Gates and Brian O’Camb. Leiden: Brill, 2019. 

Capital and Corporal Punishment in Anglo-Saxon England. Ed. Jay Paul Gates and Nicole Marafioti. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2014. 

Refereed Articles and Chapters

“Medieval Words for 2025: Old Saxon Twîflian.” Britt Mize and Johanna Kramer, eds., Medieval Words for 2025 (Special Issue), Medieval Perspectives 38 (2024): 87–93. 

“The Alfredian Prose Psalms and a Legal English Identity.” Law, Literature and Social Regulation in Early England, ed. Andrew Rabin and Anya Adair. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2023, 31–53. 

“Anglo-Saxon Predecessors and Precedents.” Remembering the Medieval Present: Generative Uses of England’s Pre-Conquest Past, 10th to 15th Centuries. Ed. Jay Paul Gates and Brian O’Camb. Leiden: Brill, 2019 (with Brian O’Camb), 1–20. 

“Quidam proditor partis Danicae: Aelred’s Re-Imagining of the Anglo-Saxon Past.” Remembering the Medieval Present: Generative Uses of England’s Pre-Conquest Past, 10th to 15th Centuries. Ed. Jay Paul Gates and Brian O’Camb. Leiden: Brill, 2019, 87–116. 

“English Legal Discourse in Quadripartitus.” Languages of the Law: Essays in Honor of Lisi Oliver. (Mediaevalia Groningana New Series) Leuven: Peeters, 2019, 241–62. 

“Discursive Murders: The St Brice’s Day Massacre, Beowulf, and Morðor.” Medieval and Early Modern Murder. Ed. Larissa Tracy. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2018, 47–76. 

“Preaching, Politics, and Episcopal Reform in Wulfstan’s Early Writings.” Early Medieval Europe 23.1 (2015): 94–117. 

“Capital and Corporal Punishment in Anglo-Saxon England.” Capital and Corporal Punishment in Anglo-Saxon England. Ed. Jay Paul Gates and Nicole Marafioti. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2014 (with Nicole Marafioti), 1–16. 

“The ‘Worcester’ Historians and Eadric Streona’s Execution.” Capital and Corporal Punishment in Anglo-Saxon England. Ed. Jay Paul Gates and Nicole Marafioti. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2014, 165–80. 

“Imagining Justice in the Anglo-Saxon Past: Eadric Streona, Kingship and the Search for Community.” The Haskins Society Journal 25 (2013): 125–46. 

“The Fulmannod Society: Social Valuing of the (Male) Legal Subject.” Castration and Culture in the Middle Ages. Ed. Larissa Tracy. Woodbridge: D. S. Brewer, 2013, 131–48.

“A Crowning Achievement: The Royal Execution and Damnation of Eadric Streona.” Heads Will Roll: Decapitation in the Medieval and Early Modern Imagination. Ed. Larissa Tracy and Jeff Massey. Leiden: Brill, 2012, 53–72. 

“Ealles Englalandes Cyningc: Cnut’s Territorial Kingship and Wulfstan’s Paronomastic Play.” Journal of Early Medieval Northwestern Europe (formerly The Heroic Age: A Journal of Early Medieval Northwestern Europe) 14 (2010). https://jemne.org/issues/14/toc.php. 

Editions and Translations

“Prologue to the Laws of King Alfred: An Edition and Translation for Students.” Journal of Early Medieval Northwestern Europe (formerly The Heroic Age: A Journal of Early Medieval Northwestern Europe) 18 (2018). https://jemne.org/issues/18/gates.php. 

Refereed Articles and Chapters on Pedagogy

“Old English and Anglo-Saxon Studies in the United States.” Teachers of Old English in Britain and Ireland Newsletter 35 (2018): 9–11 (with Brian T. O’Camb). http://www.toebi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/TOEBInews2018.pdf. (1,723 words)

“Reading Pronouns: An Entry to Medieval Textual Culture.” Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching 22.2 (2015): 113–38. (8,712 words)

Edited

“Research in Progress.” Old English Newsletter 45.4 (2017).

Commissioned Book Reviews

Review of Sources of Knowledge In Old English and Anglo-Latin Literature: Studies in Honour of Charles D. Wright edited by Stephanie Clark, Janet Schrunk Ericksen, and Shannon Godlove, Speculum 100 (2025): 792–94.

Review of The Laws of Alfred: The Domboc and the Making of Anglo-Saxon Law by Stefan Jurasinski and Lisi Oliver. Print: i–xxii + 1–472 pages (English) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Journal of British Studies 62.3 (2023) https://doi.org/10.1017/jbr.2023.83.

Review of Bonds of Secrecy: Law, Spirituality, and the Literature of Concealment in Early Medieval England by Benjamin A. Saltzman. Print: xv + 336 pages (English) Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019. Journal of English and Germanic Philology 121 (2022): 149–51.

Review of Visions and Ruins: Cultural Memory and the Untimely Middle Ages by Joshua Davies. Print: ix + 224 pages (English) Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 2018. The Medieval Review (2019). https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/tmr/article/view/28937.

Review of Law and Order in Anglo-Saxon England by Tom Lambert. Print: xvi + 390 pages (English) Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2017. H-Law, H-Net Reviews (2018). https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=50054. 

Review of Cnut the Great by Timothy Bolton, Speculum 93.3 (2018): 799–801.

Review of Æthelred the Unready by Levi Roach, Journal of British Studies 56.4 (2017): 880–81.

Review of From Lawmen to Plowmen: Anglo-Saxon Legal Tradition and the School of Langland by Stephen M. Yeager, Speculum 91.2 (2016): 574–76.