دانلود کتاب Emotion, Violence, Vengeance and Law in the Middle Ages

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Contents......Page 7
Acknowledgments......Page 11
List of Illustrations......Page 12
Notes on Contributors......Page 13
List of Abbreviations......Page 17
Introduction: In Search of Miller......Page 19
Bill the Boundless......Page 34
Miller(ed) in St Andrews......Page 37
Part 1 Emotion, Violence, Vengeance, and Law in Medieval Historical Sources......Page 41
Chapter 1 Hot Anger and Just Indignation: Justificatory Strategies in Early Modern German Homicide Trials......Page 43
Chapter 2 Trial by Ordeal by Jury in Medieval England, or Saints and Sinners in Literature and Law......Page 67
Chapter 3 Threats and Intimidation in Anglo-Norman Legal Disputes......Page 98
Chapter 4 Courts and Rule-Making in Eleventh-Century Western France......Page 121
Chapter 5 Standing up in Court: Gender and Genitalia in Fourteenth-Century Zurich......Page 148
Chapter 6 How To Be Remembered: Securing the Memoria of a Slain Person in Medieval Denmark......Page 174
Part 2 Emotion, Violence, Vengeance, and Law in Medieval Literary Sources......Page 191
Chapter 7 Telling Evidence in Njáls saga......Page 193
Chapter 8 Widening Horizons in Njáls saga......Page 207
Chapter 9 Feud in the State: The Conflict between Haakon Haakonsson and Skule Baardsson......Page 220
Chapter 10 ‘Waltharius’: Treasure, Revenge and Kingship in the Ottonian Wild West......Page 243
Part 3 Comparative Perspectives......Page 271
Chapter 11 Braveheart and Sexual Revenge......Page 273
Chapter 12 Stringer’s Saga: Njal and The Wire......Page 289
Chapter 13 ‘An Overdeveloped Sense of Vengeance’? The Middle Ages, Vengeance and Movies......Page 314
Chapter 14 Getting a Head in the Neo-Assyrian Empire: Narratives of Enemy Decapitation in Ashurbanipal’s Sources......Page 333
Epilogue: Silence as a Weapon of Self-Defence in Sense and Sensibility......Page 362
Bibliography of Books and Scholarly Articles by William I. Miller......Page 369
Index......Page 377