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1 Online-Ressource (379 pages)
ISBN:
9789004366374
Serie:
Medieval Law and Its Practice Ser
Inhalt:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Illustrations -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: In Search of Miller -- Bill the Boundless -- Miller(ed) in St Andrews -- Part 1 Emotion, Violence, Vengeance, and Law in Medieval Historical Sources -- Chapter 1 Hot Anger and Just Indignation: Justificatory Strategies in Early Modern German Homicide Trials -- Chapter 2 Trial by Ordeal by Jury in Medieval England, or Saints and Sinners in Literature and Law -- Chapter 3 Threats and Intimidation in Anglo-Norman Legal Disputes -- Chapter 4 Courts and Rule-Making in Eleventh-Century Western France -- Chapter 5 Standing up in Court: Gender and Genitalia in Fourteenth-Century Zurich -- Chapter 6 How To Be Remembered: Securing the Memoria of a Slain Person in Medieval Denmark -- Part 2 Emotion, Violence, Vengeance, and Law in Medieval Literary Sources -- Chapter 7 Telling Evidence in Njáls saga -- Chapter 8 Widening Horizons in Njáls saga -- Chapter 9 Feud in the State: The Conflict between Haakon Haakonsson and Skule Baardsson -- Chapter 10 'Waltharius': Treasure, Revenge and Kingship in the Ottonian Wild West -- Part 3 Comparative Perspectives -- Chapter 11 Braveheart and Sexual Revenge -- Chapter 12 Stringer's Saga: Njal and The Wire -- Chapter 13 'An Overdeveloped Sense of Vengeance'? The Middle Ages, Vengeance and Movies -- Chapter 14 Getting a Head in the Neo-Assyrian Empire: Narratives of Enemy Decapitation in Ashurbanipal's Sources -- Epilogue: Silence as a Weapon of Self-Defence in Sense and Sensibility -- Bibliography of Books and Scholarly Articles by William I. Miller -- Index
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9789004342729
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Gilbert, Kate Emotion, Violence, Vengeance and Law in the Middle Ages : Essays in Honour of William Ian Miller Boston : BRILL,c2018 ISBN 9789004342729
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