LEADER 04177nam 2200757Ia 450 001 9910823083403321 005 20240430185305.0 010 $a1-282-08992-7 010 $a0-226-52682-8 010 $a9786612089923 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226526829 035 $a(CKB)1000000000396147 035 $a(OCoLC)55718506 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10294868 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000083882 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11108071 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000083882 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10164139 035 $a(PQKB)10472234 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000113303 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11140380 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000113303 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10098517 035 $a(PQKB)11634957 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC432267 035 $a(DE-B1597)524810 035 $a(OCoLC)781292936 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226526829 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL432267 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10294868 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL208992 035 $a(dli)HEB01229 035 $a(MiU)MIU01000000000000003602969 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000396147 100 $a19891220d1990 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBloodtaking and peacemaking $efeud, law, and society in Saga Iceland /$fWilliam Ian Miller 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aChicago $cUniversity of Chicago Press$dc1990 215 $a1 online resource (407 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a0-226-52680-1 311 0 $a0-226-52679-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tSpelling --$tPrologue --$t1. Introduction: The Institutional Setting and the Ranks of Persons --$t2. Making Sense of the Sources --$t3. Some Aspects of the Economy: The Problem of Negotiating and Classifying Exchanges --$t4. Householding Patterns --$t5. The Bonds of Kinship --$t6. Feud, Vengeance, and the Disputing Process --$t7. Law and Legal Process --$t8. Peacemaking and Arbitration --$tConcluding Observations --$tAbbreviations --$tNotes --$tWorks Cited --$tIndex 330 $aDubbed 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 striking the balance-one could not get even without going one better. Miller shows how blood vengeance, law, and peacemaking were inextricably bound together in the feuding process. This book offers fascinating insights into the politics of a stateless society, its methods of social control, and the role that a uniquely sophisticated and self-conscious law played in the construction of Icelandic society. "Illuminating."-Rory McTurk, Times Literary Supplement "An impressive achievement in ethnohistory; it is an amalgam of historical research with legal and anthropological interpretation. What is more, and rarer, is that it is a pleasure to read due to the inclusion of narrative case material from the sagas themselves."-Dan Bauer, Journal of Interdisciplinary History 606 $aCustomary law$zIceland 606 $aKinship (Law)$zIceland 606 $aSagas 615 0$aCustomary law 615 0$aKinship (Law) 615 0$aSagas. 676 $a306.094912 676 $a306.2/5/09491209021 700 $aMiller$b William Ian$f1946-$0222661 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910823083403321 996 $aBloodtaking and peacemaking$91771827 997 $aUNINA