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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gilbert, Kate.

White, Stephen D., 1945-

Series:

Medieval Law and Its Practice 24.

Medieval law and its practice, 1873-8176 ; v. 24

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social history--Medieval, 500-1500.

Social history.

Law, Medieval.

Miller, William Ian, 1946- honoree.

Miller, William Ian.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (379 pages).

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. Contributors are Stuart Airlie, Theodore M. Andersson, Nora Bartlett, Robert Bartlett, Jordan Corrente Beck, Carol J. Clover, Lauren DesRosiers, William Eves, John Hudson, Elizabeth Papp Kamali, Kimberley-Joy Knight, Simon MacLean, M.W. McHaffie, Eva Miller, Hans Jacob Orning, Jamie Page, Susanne Pohl-Zucker, Amanda Strick, Helle Vogt, Mark D. West, and Stephen D. White.

Contents:

Front Matter

Copyright page

Acknowledgments

List of Illustrations

Notes on Contributors

List of Abbreviations

Introduction: In Search of Miller / Stephen D. White

Bill the Boundless / Jordan Corrente Beck

Miller(ed) in St Andrews / Kimberley-Joy Knight and John Hudson

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 Medieval Literary Sources

Telling Evidence in Njáls saga / Carol J. Clover

Widening Horizons in Njáls 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

Epilogue: Silence as a Weapon of Self-Defence in Sense and Sensibility / Nora Bartlett

Back Matter

Bibliography of Books and Scholarly Articles by William I. Miller

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

90-04-36637-7

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004366374 DOI