Gilbert, Kate. <br/><br/>
Emotion, Violence, Vengeance and Law in the Middle Ages :  Essays in Honour of William Ian Miller. 

 - 1st ed. 
 - 1 online resource (379 pages) 
 - Medieval Law and Its Practice Series ;  v.24 .
 - Medieval Law and Its Practice Series .
<br/><br/>Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Illustrations -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: In Search of Miller -- Bill the Boundless -- Miller(ed) in St Andrews -- Part 1 Emotion, Violence, Vengeance, and Law in Medieval Historical Sources -- Chapter 1 Hot Anger and Just Indignation: Justificatory Strategies in Early Modern German Homicide Trials -- Chapter 2 Trial by Ordeal by Jury in Medieval England, or Saints and Sinners in Literature and Law -- Chapter 3 Threats and Intimidation in Anglo-Norman Legal Disputes -- Chapter 4 Courts and Rule-Making in Eleventh-Century Western France -- Chapter 5 Standing up in Court: Gender and Genitalia in Fourteenth-Century Zurich -- Chapter 6 How To Be Remembered: Securing the Memoria of a Slain Person in Medieval Denmark -- Part 2 Emotion, Violence, Vengeance, and Law in Medieval Literary Sources -- Chapter 7 Telling Evidence in Njáls saga -- Chapter 8 Widening Horizons in Njáls saga -- Chapter 9 Feud in the State: The Conflict between Haakon Haakonsson and Skule Baardsson -- Chapter 10 'Waltharius': Treasure, Revenge and Kingship in the Ottonian Wild West -- Part 3 Comparative Perspectives -- Chapter 11 Braveheart and Sexual Revenge -- Chapter 12 Stringer's Saga: Njal and The Wire -- Chapter 13 'An Overdeveloped Sense of Vengeance'? The Middle Ages, Vengeance and Movies -- Chapter 14 Getting a Head in the Neo-Assyrian Empire: Narratives of Enemy Decapitation in Ashurbanipal's Sources -- Epilogue: Silence as a Weapon of Self-Defence in Sense and Sensibility -- Bibliography of Books and Scholarly Articles by William I. Miller -- Index. 
<br/><br/> The essays in this Festschrift for William Ian Miller reflect the honorand's wide-ranging interest in legal history, Icelandic sagas, anger and violence, and contemporary popular culture. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9789004366374 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Miller, William Ian,-1946--honoree.<br/>Social history-Medieval, 500-1500.<br/>Law, Medieval.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HN11 .E468 2018