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