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

• TeilnehmendeR: Gilbert, Kate.; White, Stephen D., 1945-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2018]
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Medieval Law and Its Practice 24.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (379 pages).

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.

Table of 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.