(Source: Brill)
Brill has just published a Festschrift for
American scholar William Ian Miller, which contains several legal-historical
contributions on European Medieval legal history.
ABOUT THE BOOK
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.
ABOUT THE EDITORS
Kate Gilbert, M.Litt. (2010), University of
St Andrews, is an independent scholar and freelance editor. Her published work
includes Life in a Hampshire Village: The History of Ashley (1992) and, as
associate author, The Bayeux Tapestry and its Contexts (2014).
Stephen D. White, Ph.D. (1972), Harvard
University, is Candler Professor of Medieval History Emeritus, Emory
University. His books include Re-Thinking Kinship and Feudalism in Early
Medieval Europe (2005) and Feuding and Peacemaking in Eleventh-Century France
(2005).
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Front Matter
Copyright page
Acknowledgments
List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: In Search of Miller By:
Stephen D. White Pages: 1–15
Bill the Boundless By: Jordan Corrente Beck
Pages: 16–18
Miller(ed) in St Andrews By: Kimberley-Joy
Knight and John Hudson Pages: 19–21
Emotion, Violence, Vengeance, and Law in
Medieval Historical Sources
Hot Anger and Just Indignation:
Justificatory Strategies in Early Modern German Homicide Trials By: Susanne
Pohl-Zucker Pages: 25–48
Trial by Ordeal by Jury in Medieval
England, or Saints and Sinners in Literature and Law By: Elizabeth Papp Kamali Pages:
49–79
Threats and Intimidation in Anglo-Norman
Legal Disputes By: William Eves Pages: 80–102
Courts and Rule-Making in Eleventh-Century
Western France By: M. W. McHaffie Pages: 103–129
Standing up in Court: Gender and Genitalia
in Fourteenth-Century Zurich By: Jamie Page Pages: 130–155
How To Be Remembered: Securing the Memoria
of a Slain Person in Medieval Denmark By: Helle Vogt Pages: 156–171
Emotion, Violence, Vengeance, and Law in
Medieval Literary Sources Telling Evidence in Njáls saga By: Carol J. Clover Pages:
175–188
Widening Horizons in Njáls saga By:
Theodore M. Andersson Pages: 189–201
Feud in the State: The Conflict between
Haakon Haakonsson and Skule Baardsson By: Hans Jacob Orning Pages: 202–224
‘Waltharius’: Treasure, Revenge and Kingship
in the Ottonian Wild West By: Simon MacLean Pages: 225–251
Comparative Perspectives
Braveheart and Sexual Revenge By: Robert
Bartlett Pages: 255–270
Stringer’s Saga: Njal and The Wire By: John
Hudson and Mark D. West Pages: 271–295
‘An Overdeveloped Sense of Vengeance’? The
Middle Ages, Vengeance and Movies By: Stuart Airlie Pages: 296–314
Getting a Head in the Neo-Assyrian Empire:
Narratives of Enemy Decapitation in Ashurbanipal’s Sources By: Eva Miller Pages:
315–343
Epilogue: Silence as a Weapon of Self-Defence
in Sense and Sensibility By: Nora Bartlett Pages: 344–350
Back Matter
Bibliography of Books and Scholarly
Articles by William I. Miller
Index
More information with the publisher
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