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Emotion, violence, vengeance and law in the Middle Ages : essays in honour of William Ian Miller / edited by Kate Gilbert, Stephen D. White.

Van Pelt Library HN11 .E46 2018
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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.
Gilbert, Kate, editor.
White, Stephen D., 1945- editor.
Miller, William Ian, 1946- honouree.
Series:
Medieval law and its practice ; v. 24.
Medieval law and its practice, 1873-8176 ; volume 24
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Miller, William Ian, 1946-.
Miller, William Ian.
Social history--Medieval, 500-1500.
Social history.
Social history--Medieval.
Law, Medieval.
Genre:
Festschriften.
Physical Description:
xiv, 361 pages ; 25 cm.
Place of Publication:
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018]
Summary:
Contributions to this Festschrift for the renowned American legal and literary scholar William Ian Miller reflect the extraordinary intellectual range of the honorand, who is equally at home discussing legal history, Icelandic sagas, English literature, anger and violence, and contemporary popular culture. Professor Miller's colleagues and former students, including distinguished academic lawyers, historians, and literary scholars from the United States, Canada, and Europe break important new ground by bringing little-known sources to a wider audience and by shedding new light on familiar sources through innovative modes of analysis.0.
Contents:
Emotion, violence, vengeance, and law in Medieval Historical Sources
Hot anger and just indignation: Justificatory strategies in Early Modern German homicide trials / Susanne Pohl-Zucker
Trial by ordeal by jury in Medieval England, or Saints and Sinners in Literature and Law / Elizabeth Papp Kamali
Threats and intimidation in Anglo-Norman legal disputes / William Eves
Courts and rule-making in Eleventh-Century Western France / M. W. McHaffie
Standing up in court: Gender and Genitalia in Fourteenth-Century Zurich / Jamie Page
How to be remembered: Securing the memoria of a slain person in Medieval Denmark / Helle Vogt
Emotion, violence, vengeance, and law in m edieval literary
Telling evidence in Njals Saga / Carol J. Clover
Widening horizons in Njals Saga / Theodore M. Andersson
Feud in the state: The conflict between Haakon Haakonsson and Skule Baardsson / Hans Jacob Orning
"Waltharius": Treasure, revenge and kingship in the Ottonian Wild West / Simon MacLean
Comparative perspectives
Braveheart and sexual revenge / Robert Bartlett
Stringer's saga: Njal and the wire / John Hudson and Mark D. West
'An overdeveloped sense of vengeance'? The Middle Ages, vengeance and movies / Stuart Airlie
Getting a head in the Neo-Assyrian Empire: Narratives of enemy
Decapitation in Ashurbanipal's sources / Eva Miller.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Local Notes:
Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.
Other Format:
Online version: Emotion, violence, vengeance and law in the Middle Ages
ISBN:
9789004342729
9004342729
OCLC:
1035225430

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