Excommunication and outlawry in the legal world of medieval Iceland / / by Elizabeth Walgenbach.
"In this book Elizabeth Walgenbach argues that outlawry in medieval Iceland was a punishment shaped by the conventions of excommunication as it developed in the medieval Church. Excommunication and outlawry resemble one another, often closely, in a range of Icelandic texts, including lawcodes a...
Saved in:
Superior document: | The Northern world ; Volume 92 |
---|---|
VerfasserIn: | |
Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2021] ©2021 |
Year of Publication: | 2021 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Northern world ;
Volume 92. |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (190 pages) |
Tags: |
Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Excommunication
- Outlawry
- Outlawry as secular excommunication
- Excommunication and outlawry in Sturla Þórðarson's Íslendinga saga
- Stories of Aron Hjǫrleifsson, outlaw and pilgrim
- Conclusion.