In progress


Monograph: The Liber Papiensis in the ‘Long’ Eleventh Century: Manuscripts, Materiality and Mise-en-Page (Leeds: Kismet Press, 2021 [in press])

Monograph: Lombard Law Books in the Long Tenth Century (Binghamton: Gracchi Books, [in preparation])

Edited Collection: Books of Law in the Very Long Tenth Century, ed. by Thom Gobbitt (Binghamton: Gracchi Books, [in preparation])

          Chapter: ‘Introduction: Books of Law in the Very Long Tenth Century’, in Books of Law in the Very Long Tenth Century, ed. by Thom Gobbitt (Binghamton: Gracchi Books, [in preparation])

          Chapter: ‘How Many Scribes? Scribal Stints in Vatican, MS Vat. Lat. 5359’, in Books of Law in the Very Long Tenth Century, ed. by Thom Gobbitt (Binghamton: Gracchi Books, [in preparation])

Chapter: ‘Compiling Charlemagne’s Herstal Capitulary in the Eleventh-Century Liber Papiensis: Re-assessing the Sources’, in Creating Communities and Others in Early Medieval Europe, ed. by Richard Broome (Leeds: Kismet Press [Forthcoming – accepted subject to corrections, 10 January 2020])

Chapter: ‘Scribes and Strategies of a Mid to Late Ninth-Century Legal Collection: Modena, Biblioteca Capitolare, MS O. I. 2’, in The Art of Compilation: Manuscripts and Networks in the Early Medieval Latin West, ed. by Michael J. Kelly and Anna Dorofeeva (Binghmaton: Gracchi Books, [forthcoming – accepted at peer-review, June 2021])

Peer-reviewed publications


Law | Book | Culture in the Middle Ages, ed. by Thom Gobbitt (Leiden: Brill, 2021)

‘Introduction: Law | Book | Culture in the Middle Ages’, in Law | Book | Culture in the Middle Ages, ed. by Thom Gobbitt (Leiden: Brill, 2021), 1-13

‘Liutprand’s Prologues in the Edictus Langobardorum’, in Law | Book | Culture in the Middle Ages, ed. by Thom Gobbitt (Leiden: Brill, 2021), 71-97

‘From Grave Robbing to Pastured Pigs: Intratextual References and Legal Thinking in Lombard Law-Books, ca. 1050-1125’, Manuscripta 64.2 (2020), 181-229

‘Poisoning, Killing and Murder in the Edictus Rothari’, in Medieval and Early Modern Murder, ed. by Larissa Tracy (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2018), 333-49

‘Palaeographic Preferences and Manuscript Contexts of a Mid-Eleventh-Century English Legal Collection: London, British Library, Cotton MS Nero A. I (Part A)’, Scriptorium, 69 (2015), 61-77

‘The other book: Cambridge, Corpus Christi College MS 383 in relation to the Textus Roffensis’, in Textus Roffensis in Context: Law, Language and Libraries in Early Medieval England, ed. by Bruce O’Brien and Barbara Bombi (Turnhout, Brepols: 2015), pp. 69-82

‘Materiality, stratigraphy and artefact biography: codicological features of a late-eleventh-century manuscript of the Lombard laws’, StudiaNeophilologica, 86 (2014), 48-67

‘(Old) English, Anglo-Saxon legal texts in the later eleventh to mid-twelfth centuries’, Literature Compass, 10 (2013), 618-30

‘The twelfth-century rubrication of Anglo-Saxon legal texts in Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS. 383’, Historical Research, 86 (2013), 536-49

‘The manuscript contexts of the Old English Frið of Ælfred and Guðrum’, Manuscripta, 57 (2013), 29-56

‘Orthographic preferences in the production of MS Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 383 at the turn of the twelfth century’, Scriptorium, 66 (2012), 3-24

‘Miniaturing as emendation: I-II Cnut and the production of MS Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 383’, in ASpecial Issue on Production and Use of English Manuscripts: 1060 to 1220, ed. by Elaine Treharne, Mary Swan, Orietta Da Rold and Takako Kato, New Medieval Literatures, ed. by Wendy Scase, Rita Copeland, and David Lawton, 13 (2011), pp. 99-112

‘I Æthelred in Felix Liebermann’s Die Gesetze der Angelsachsen and in the mise-en-page of Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 383’, in English Law before Magna Carta: Felix Liebermann and Die Gesetze der Angelsachsen, ed. by Andrew Rabin, Elizabeth Oliver and Stefan Jurasinski (Leiden: Brill, 2010), pp. 119-35

‘Audience and amendment of Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 383 in the first half of the twelfth century’, Skepsi, 2 (2009), 6-22

Other (Non-Peer-Reviewed) Publications


Book Review: ‘Thomas Faulkner, Law and Authority in the Early Middle Ages: The Frankish Leges in the Carolingian Period’, Early Medieval Europe, 27 (2019), 596-98

Book Review: ‘Ben Snook, The Anglo-Saxon Chancery: The History, Language and Production of Anglo-Saxon Charters from Alfred to Edgar’, Manuscripta, 60 (2016), 102-07

Book Review: ‘Donald Scragg, A Conspectus of Scribal Hands Writing English, 960-1100’, Leeds Studies in English, 45 (2014), 133-35

Book Review: ‘A. N. Doane and William P. Stoneman, Purloined Letters: The Twelfth-Century Reception of the Anglo-Saxon Hexateuch’, Anglia, 131 (2013), 361-65

Edition and Commentary: Rectitudines Singularum Personarum and Gerefa’, in Early English Laws (2012)

Manuscript Descriptions


‘FLORENCE, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, MS Plut. 89 sup 86, ca. 1080-1100, Italy’, in Early Medieval Laws and Law-Books, ed. by Thom Gobbitt [Last updated, May 2020], <https://thomgobbitt.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/florence-bml-plut-89-sup-86.pdf>

‘LONDON, British Library, MS Add. 5411, ca. 1050-1100, Northern Italy’, in Early Medieval Laws and Law-Books, ed. by Thom Gobbitt [Last updated, December 2015], <https://thomgobbitt.files.wordpress.com/2015/12/london-bl-ms-add-5411.pdf>

‘MADRID, Biblioteca Nacional, MS 413, ca 900-100, Southern Italy’, in Early Medieval Laws and Law-Books, ed. by Thom Gobbitt [Last updated, March 2018], <https://thomgobbitt.files.wordpress.com/2018/04/madrid_bn_ms413_april2018.pdf>

‘MILAN, Biblioteca Ambrosiana, MS O 53 sup., ca. 1028-1050, Northern Italy’, in Early Medieval Laws and Law-Books, ed. by Thom Gobbitt [Last updated, March 2015], <https://thomgobbitt.files.wordpress.com/2016/04/milan-ba-o-53sup.pdf>

‘MILAN, Biblioteca Ambrosiana, MS O 55 sup., ca. 1028-1050, Northern Italy’, in Early Medieval Laws and Law-Books, ed. by Thom Gobbitt [Last updated, March 2015], <https://thomgobbitt.files.wordpress.com/2016/04/milan-ba-o-55sup.pdf>

‘PADUA, Biblioteca del Seminario Vescoville, MS DXXVIII (528), ca. 1100-25, Northern Italy’, in Early Medieval Laws and Law-Books, ed. by Thom Gobbitt [Last updated, March 2015], <https://thomgobbitt.files.wordpress.com/2015/12/padua-bsv-ms-dxxviii.pdf>

‘PARIS, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, MS Lat. 4613, 900-1000, Northern Italy’, in Early Medieval Laws and Law-Books, ed. by Thom Gobbitt [Last updated, February 2020] <https://thomgobbitt.files.wordpress.com/2020/02/paris-bnf-ms-lat-4613.pdf>

‘PARIS, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, MS Lat. 9656, 1050-1075-1000, Pavia?, Italy’, in Early Medieval Laws and Law-Books, ed. by Thom Gobbitt [Last updated, April 2017], <https://thomgobbitt.files.wordpress.com/2017/04/paris-bnf-ms-lat-9656-final.pdf>

‘VENICE, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, MS Lat. V. 81 (2751), ca. 1050-1100, Northern Italy’, in Early Medieval Laws and Law-Books, ed. by Thom Gobbitt [Last updated, May 2020], <https://thomgobbitt.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/venice-bnm-ms-lat-v-81_-2751_2020_05_14.pdf>

‘VIENNA, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, MS Cod. 471, ca. 1050-1075, Pavia?, Italy’, in Early Medieval Laws and Law-Books, ed. by Thom Gobbitt [Last updated, September 2014], <https://thomgobbitt.files.wordpress.com/2015/12/vienna-c3b6nb-ms-cod-471.pdf>