TY  - GEN
T1  - Bloodtaking and peacemaking : feud, law, and society in Saga Iceland
A1  - Miller, William Ian, 1946-
LA  - English
PP  - Chicago
PB  - University of Chicago Press
YR  - 1990
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocm55718506
AB  - 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
OP  - 407
CN  - KKG12 .M55 1990 E-book
SN  - 9780226526829
SN  - 0226526828
SN  - 1282089927
SN  - 9781282089921
SN  - 9786612089923
SN  - 661208992X
SN  - 0226526798
SN  - 9780226526799
SN  - 0226526801
SN  - 9780226526805
KW  - Customary law : Iceland.
KW  - Kinship (Law) : Iceland.
KW  - Sagas.
KW  - Jurisprudence
KW  - Iceland
KW  - Parenté (Droit) : Islande.
KW  - Droit coutumier : Islande.
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE : Anthropology : Cultural.
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE : Public Policy : Cultural Policy.
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE : Popular Culture.
KW  - Customary law
KW  - Kinship (Law)
KW  - Sagas
ER  -