Beating Up on Women and Old Men and Other Enormities: A Social Historical Inquiry into Literary Sources

The Icelandic sagas, besides being one of the most impressive literatures existing in any language, preserve detailed accounts of feud and legal action, and describe with intelligence and care the general techniques and strategies of dispute processing. They also contain, incidental to the narrative...

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Main Author: Miller, William I.
Format: Text
Language:unknown
Published: University of Michigan Law School Scholarship Repository 1988
Subjects:
Law and literature
Texts
Sources
Iceland
Sagas
Women
Domestic violence
Comparative and Foreign Law
Law and Gender
Legal History
Online Access:https://repository.law.umich.edu/articles/206
https://repository.law.umich.edu/context/articles/article/1205/viewcontent/39MercerLRev753.pdf
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Summary:The Icelandic sagas, besides being one of the most impressive literatures existing in any language, preserve detailed accounts of feud and legal action, and describe with intelligence and care the general techniques and strategies of dispute processing. They also contain, incidental to the narrative, information about values and law, marriage and death, householding arrangements and the systems of exchange, naming patterns, and so on, for those who care to coax such information from the texts.

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