Bloodtaking and Peacemaking Feud, Law, and Society in Saga Iceland

Name: Bloodtaking and Peacemaking Feud, Law, and Society in Saga Iceland
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ISBN: 9780226526805

ISBN-10: 0226526801

ISBN-13: 9780226526805

Edition: 1990

Authors: William Ian Miller

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Dubbed by the New York Times as "one of the most sought-after legal academics in the county," William Ian Miller presents the arcane worlds of the Old Norse studies in a way sure to attract the interest of a wide range of readers. Bloodtaking and Peacemaking delves beneath the chaos and brutality of the Norse world to discover a complex interplay of ordering and disordering impulses. Miller's unique and engaging readings of ancient Iceland's sagas and extensive legal code reconstruct and illuminate the society that produced them. People in the saga world negotiated a maze of violent possibility, with strategies that frequently put life and limb in the balance. But there was a paradox in…

Book details

List price: $33.00
Copyright year: 1990
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 2/15/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 415
Size: 0.60" wide x 0.90" long x 0.10" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English