Hrafnkel or the Ambiguities: Hard Cases, Hard Choices

ISBN-13: 9780192855817 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 280 str.

William Ian Miller

Recenzje

[A] tour-de-force combination of legal scholarship and passionate imaginative engagement with the work.

O autorze

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