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Hrafnkel Or the Ambiguities

Author : William Ian Miller
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198793030
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book Hrafnkel Or the Ambiguities written by William Ian Miller and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Ian Miller presents a close reading of one of the best known of the Icelandic sagas, showing its moral, political, and psychological sophistication. Hrafnkel tells of a fairly simple feud in which a man rises, falls, and rises again with a vengeance, so to speak. The saga deals with complex issues with finely layered irony: who can one justifiably hit, when, and by what means? It does this with cool nuance, also taking on matters of torture and pain-infliction as a means of generating fellow-feeling. How does one measure pain and humiliation so as to get even, to get back to equal? People are forced to set prices on things we tell ourselves soporifically are priceless, such as esteem, dignity, life itself. Morality no less than legal remedy involves price-setting. This book flies in the face of all the previous critical literature which, with very few exceptions, imposes simplistic readings on the saga. A translation of the saga is provided as an appendix.

Emotion, Violence, Vengeance and Law in the Middle Ages

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004366377
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Emotion, Violence, Vengeance and Law in the Middle Ages written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Outrageous Fortune

Author : William Ian Miller
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197530699
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (975 download)

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Download or read book Outrageous Fortune written by William Ian Miller and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-02 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, William Ian Miller offers his reflections on the perverse consequences, indeed often the opposite of intended effects, of so-called 'good things'. Noted for his remarkable erudition, wit, and playful pessimism, Miller here ranges over topics from personal disasters to literary and national ones. Drawing on a truly immense store of knowledge encompassing literature, philosophy, theology, and history, he excavates the evidence of human anxieties around scarcity in all its forms (from scarcity of food to luck to where we stand in the eyes of others caught in a game of musical chairs we often do not even know we are playing). With wit and sensitivity, along with a large measure of fearless self-scrutiny, he points to and invites us to recognize the gloomy, neurotic, despondent tendencies of reasonably sentient human life. The book is a careful examination of negative beliefs, inviting an experience of bleak fellow-feeling among the author, the reader and many a hapless soul across the centuries. Just what makes you more nervous, he asks, a run of good luck, or a run of bad?

Emotional Alterity in the Medieval North Sea World

Author : Erin Sebo
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031339657
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (313 download)

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Download or read book Emotional Alterity in the Medieval North Sea World written by Erin Sebo and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-09-25 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses a little-considered aspect of the study of the history of emotions in medieval literature: the depiction of perplexing emotional reactions. Medieval literature often confronts audiences with displays of emotion that are improbable, physiologically impossible, or simply unfathomable in modern social contexts. The intent of such episodes is not always clear; medieval texts rarely explain emotional responses or their motivations. The implication is that the meanings communicated by such emotional display were so obvious to their intended audience that no explanation was required. This raises the question of whether such meanings can be recovered. This is the task to which the contributors to this book have put themselves. In approaching this question, this book does not set out to be a collection of literary studies that treat portrayals of emotion as simple tropes or motifs, isolated within their corpora. Rather, it seeks to uncover how such manifestations of feeling may reflect cultural and social dynamics underlying vernacular literatures from across the medieval North Sea world.

Bloodtaking and Peacemaking

Author : William Ian Miller
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226526828
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (265 download)

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Download or read book Bloodtaking and Peacemaking written by William Ian Miller and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-05-15 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dubbed 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

Law | Book | Culture in the Middle Ages

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004448659
Total Pages : 477 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Law | Book | Culture in the Middle Ages written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-02-01 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Law | Book | Culture in the Middle Ages takes a detailed view on the role of manuscripts and the written word in legal cultures, spanning the medieval period across western and central Europe.

Cecilia Valdés or El Angel Hill

Author : Cirilo Villaverde
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199725233
Total Pages : 545 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book Cecilia Valdés or El Angel Hill written by Cirilo Villaverde and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005-09-29 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cecilia Valdés is arguably the most important novel of 19th century Cuba. Originally published in New York City in 1882, Cirilo Villaverde's novel has fascinated readers inside and outside Cuba since the late 19th century. In this new English translation, a vast landscape emerges of the moral, political, and sexual depravity caused by slavery and colonialism. Set in the Havana of the 1830s, the novel introduces us to Cecilia, a beautiful light-skinned mulatta, who is being pursued by the son of a Spanish slave trader, named Leonardo. Unbeknownst to the two, they are the children of the same father. Eventually Cecilia gives in to Leonardo's advances; she becomes pregnant and gives birth to a baby girl. When Leonardo, who gets bored with Cecilia after a while, agrees to marry a white upper class woman, Cecilia vows revenge. A mulatto friend and suitor of hers kills Leonardo, and Cecilia is thrown into prison as an accessory to the crime. For the contemporary reader Helen Lane's masterful translation of Cecilia Valdés opens a new window into the intricate problems of race relations in Cuba and the Caribbean. There are the elite social circles of European and New World Whites, the rich culture of the free people of color, the class to which Cecilia herself belonged, and then the slaves, divided among themselves between those who were born in Africa and those who were born in the New World, and those who worked on the sugar plantation and those who worked in the households of the rich people in Havana. Cecilia Valdés thus presents a vast portrait of sexual, social, and racial oppression, and the lived experience of Spanish colonialism in Cuba.

'Why is Your Axe Bloody?'

Author : William Ian Miller
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198704844
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book 'Why is Your Axe Bloody?' written by William Ian Miller and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Njals saga, the greatest of the sagas of the Icelanders, was written around 1280. It tells the story of a complex feud that starts innocently enough--in a tiff over seating arrangement at a local feast--and expands over the course of 20 years to engulf half the country, in which both sides are effectively exterminated, Njal and his family burned to death in their farmhouse, the other faction picked off over the entire course of the feud. Law and feud feature centrally in the saga, Njal, its hero, being the greatest lawyer of his generation. No reading of the saga can do it justice unless it takes its law, its feuding strategies, as well as the author's stunning manipulation and saga conventions. In 'Why is Your Axe Bloody?' W.I. Miller offers a lively, entertaining, and completely orignal personal reading of this lengthy saga.

Emotions as Engines of History

Author : Rafał Borysławski
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000452379
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Emotions as Engines of History written by Rafał Borysławski and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-09-23 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seeking to bridge the gap between various approaches to the study of emotions, this volume aims at a multidisciplinary examination of connections between emotions and history and the ways in which these connections have manifested themselves in historiography, cultural, and literary studies. The book offers a selected range of insights into the idea of emotions, affects, and emotionality as driving forces and agents of change in history. The fifteen essays it comprises probe into the emotional motives and dispositions behind both historical phenomena and the ways they were narrated.

A New Introduction to Old Norse: Reader

Author : Anthony Faulkes
Publisher : Viking Society for Northern Research University College
ISBN 13 : 9780903521697
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (216 download)

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Download or read book A New Introduction to Old Norse: Reader written by Anthony Faulkes and published by Viking Society for Northern Research University College. This book was released on 2007 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Interpretation of Order

Author : Ahuvia Kahane
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781383004489
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book The Interpretation of Order written by Ahuvia Kahane and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on the latest linguistic and literary theory, this study looks at the literary significance of word repetition and linguistic patterns in Homer, and highlights the sophisticated irony, allusion, ambivalence and ambiguity in Homer's discourse.

Old English Newsletter

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 674 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Old English Newsletter written by and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Graph Drawing and Network Visualization

Author : David Auber
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9783030687656
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (876 download)

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Download or read book Graph Drawing and Network Visualization written by David Auber and published by Springer. This book was released on 2021-02-14 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 28th International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization, GD 2020, which was held during September 16-18, 2020. The conference was planned to take place in Vancouver, Canada, but changed to an online format due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The 29 full and 9 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 82 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: gradient descent and queue layouts; drawing tree-like graphs, visualization, and special drawings of elementary graphs; restricted drawings of special graph classes; orthogonality; topological constraints; crossings, k-planar graphs; planarity; graphs drawing contest.

The Absentee

Author : Maria Edgeworth
Publisher : The Floating Press
ISBN 13 : 1775415929
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (754 download)

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Download or read book The Absentee written by Maria Edgeworth and published by The Floating Press. This book was released on 2009-06-01 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the eve of his coming of age, a young Lord begins to see the truth of his parents' lives: his mother cannot buy her way into society no matter how hard he tries, and his father is being ruined by her continued attempts. The young Lord then travels to his home in Ireland, encountering adventure on the way, and discovers that the native residents are being exploited in his father's absence.

Njals Saga and Its Christian Background: A Study of Narrative Method. Germania Latina VIII

Author : A. Hamer
Publisher : Peeters
ISBN 13 : 9789042930896
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Njals Saga and Its Christian Background: A Study of Narrative Method. Germania Latina VIII written by A. Hamer and published by Peeters. This book was released on 2014-12-31 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Njals saga is universally recognised as the greatest and most complex of all the sagas of Icelanders (Islendingasogur). The originality with which the writer composed his narrative has led to its being likened to a novel created by an author who certainly used sources, although identifying which parts of the saga descend from oral and which from written sources has proved difficult. The 'Christian background' of the title of this study refers to the ecclesiastical texts (including Scripture and its exegesis, church liturgy and the liturgical year, and hagiographical and apocryphal writings) which, it is argued, were used by the author of Njals saga as he both created a bipartite structure, using familiar Christian metaphors to help unify the work; and developed his central thematic concern: that good legal judgement depends upon justice and mercy acting together, as in divine judgement. It is this which finally redeems Skarphedinn Njalsson.

Faking It

Author : William Ian Miller
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521830188
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Faking It written by William Ian Miller and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-08-18 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the intrusive fear that we may not be what we appear to be, or worse, that we may be only what we appear to be and nothing more. It is concerned with the worry of being exposed as frauds in our profession, cads in our love lives, as less than virtuously motivated actors when we are being agreeable, charitable, or decent. Why do we so often mistrust the motives of our own deeds, thinking them fake, though the beneficiary of them gives us full credit? Much of this book deals with that self-tormenting self-consciousness. It is about roles and identity, discussing our engagement in the roles we play, our doubts about our identities amidst this flux of roles, and thus about anxieties of authenticity.

The Mystery of Courage

Author : William Ian Miller
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674041054
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book The Mystery of Courage written by William Ian Miller and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few of us spend much time thinking about courage, but we know it when we see it--or do we? Is it best displayed by marching into danger, making the charge, or by resisting, enduring without complaint? Is it physical or moral, or both? Is it fearless, or does it involve subduing fear? Abner Small, a Civil War soldier, was puzzled by what he called the "mystery of bravery"; to him, courage and cowardice seemed strangely divorced from character and will. It is this mystery, just as puzzling in our day, that William Ian Miller unravels in this engrossing meditation. Miller culls sources as varied as soldiers' memoirs, heroic and romantic literature, and philosophical discussions to get to the heart of courage--and to expose its role in generating the central anxieties of masculinity and manhood. He probes the link between courage and fear, and explores the connection between bravery and seemingly related states: rashness, stubbornness, madness, cruelty, fury; pride and fear of disgrace; and the authority and experience that minimize fear. By turns witty and moving, inquisitive and critical, his inquiry takes us from ancient Greece to medieval Europe, to the American Civil War, to the Great War and Vietnam, with sidetrips to the schoolyard, the bedroom, and the restaurant. Whether consulting Aristotle or private soldiers, Miller elicits consistently compelling insights into a condition as endlessly interesting as it is elusive.