TY  - BOOK
AU  - Miller,William Ian
TI  - Bloodtaking and peacemaking: feud, law, and society in Saga Iceland 
SN  - 0226526798 (cloth)
AV  - KKG12 .M55 1990 E-book
U1  - 306.2/5/09491209021 22
PY  - 1990///
CY  - Chicago
PB  - University of Chicago Press
KW  - Customary law
KW  - Iceland
KW  - Kinship (Law)
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Anthropology
KW  - Cultural
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE
KW  - Public Policy
KW  - Cultural Policy
KW  - Popular Culture
KW  - Civilization
KW  - History, to 1262
KW  - საზოგადოებრივი მეცნიერება--
KW  - ჩვეულებითი სამართალი
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Acknowledgments; Spelling; Prologue; 1 Introduction: The Institutional Setting and the Ranks of Persons; 2 Making Sense of the Sources; 3 Some Aspects of the Economy: The Problem of Negotiating and Classifying Exchanges; 4 Householding Patterns; 5 The Bonds of Kinship; 6 Feud, Vengeance, and the Disputing Process; 7 Law and Legal Process; 8 Peacemaking and Arbitration; Concluding Observations; Abbreviations; Notes; Works Cited; Index
N2  - 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
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