William Ian Miller (Thomas G. Long Thomas G. Long Professor of Law

Broschiertes Buch

Hrafnkel or the Ambiguities

Hard Cases, Hard Choices

Beschreibung

William Ian Miller presents a close reading of one of the best known of the Icelandic sagas, showing its moral, political, and psychological sophistication. His account of this complex and nuanced saga corrects simplistic readings which have governed interpretation of the saga in the past.

Autor

William Ian Miller is the Thomas G. Long Professor of Law at the University of Michigan and Honorary Professor of History at the University of St. Andrews. He has written extensively on the bloodfeud, mostly as manifested in saga Iceland: Bloodtaking and Peacemaking (1990), Eye for an Eye (2006), Audun and the Polar Bear (2008); 'Why is your Axe Bloody?': A Reading of Njáls saga (2014). He has also written books about various emotions, mostly unpleasant ones: Humiliation (1993), The Anatomy of Disgust (1997), The Mystery of Courage (2000), Faking It (2003), and Losing It (2011) about the loss of mental acuity that comes with age

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Januar 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 158mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 436g
• ISBN-13: 9780192855817
• ISBN-10: 0192855816
• Artikelnr.: 61992456