Emotion, Violence, Vengeance and Law in the Middle Ages

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).

"The lineup in this invigorating Festschrift is a starry one. Perhaps more important, it seems genuinely to reflect the ways in which William Ian Miller has inspired a great range of scholars of legal history, Icelandic sagas, and violence, as well as emotions more broadly. The authors have done an effective job of pulling together a volume with intellectual coherence. Though there is not space here to discuss each contribution, I can attest that all are insightful and of high quality. This is a rewarding volume: a particular strength is to show how unexpected sources can shed light on more well worked topics. [...] This is a stimulating volume that resonates with a number of crucial themes for medievalists". Hannah Skoda, in Speculum, 95 (3), 2020.

• ContentsList of IllustrationsNotes on ContributorsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction: In Search of MillerStephen D. WhiteBill the BoundlessJordan Corrente BeckMiller(ed) in St AndrewsKimberley-Joy Knight and John HudsonPart 1 
Emotion, Violence, Vengeance, and Law in Medieval Historical Sources1 Hot Anger and Just Indignation: Justificatory Strategies in Early Modern German Homicide TrialsSusanne Pohl-Zucker2 Trial by Ordeal by Jury in Medieval England, or Saints and Sinners in Literature and LawElizabeth Papp Kamali3 Threats and Intimidation in Anglo-Norman Legal DisputesWilliam Eves4 Courts and Rule-Making in Eleventh-Century Western FranceM. W. McHaffie5 Standing up in Court: Gender and Genitalia in Fourteenth-Century ZurichJamie Page6 How To Be Remembered: Securing the Memoria of a Slain Person in Medieval DenmarkHelle VogtPart 2 
Emotion, Violence, Vengeance, and Law in Medieval Literary Sources7 Telling Evidence in Njáls SagaCarol J. Clover8 Widening Horizons in Njáls SagaTheodore M. Andersson9 Feud in the State: The Conflict between Haakon Haakonsson and Skule BaardssonHans Jacob Orning10 ‘Waltharius’: Treasure, Revenge and Kingship in the Ottonian Wild WestSimon MacLeanPart 3 
Comparative Perspectives11 Braveheart and Sexual RevengeRobert Bartlett12 Stringer’s Saga: Njal and The WireJohn Hudson and Mark D. West13 ‘An Overdeveloped Sense of Vengeance’? The Middle Ages, Vengeance and MoviesStuart Airlie14 Getting a Head in the Neo-Assyrian Empire: Narratives of Enemy Decapitation in Ashurbanipal’s SourcesEva MillerEpilogue: Silence as a Weapon of Self-Defence in Sense and SensibilityNora BartlettBibliography of Books and Scholarly Articles by William I. MillerCompiled by Lauren DesRosiers and Amanda StrickIndex