Decapitation in Ashurbanipal's sources / Hot anger and just indignation: Justificatory strategies in Early Modern German homicide trials / Eva Miller. 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 -- '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.
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"--Back cover.
Series:
Medieval law and its practice, 1873-8176 ; volume 24
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