Disputing strategies in medieval Scandinavia /
The book discusses how conflicts were handled in medieval Scandinavia. Using practice as analytical concept, the authors explore law and litigation in conjunction with non-formal legal proceedings such as out-of-court mediation, rituals, emotional posturing, and feuding.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden :
Brill,
2013.
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| Series: | Medieval law and its practice ;
v. 16. |
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Table of Contents:
- Conflict and social (dis)order in Norway, c. 1030-1160 / Hans Jacob Orning
- Kingship, women and politics in Morkinskinna / Auður Magnúsdóttir
- How to legitimate rebellion and condemn usurpation of the crown : discourses of fidelity and treason in the Gesta Danorum of Saxo Grammaticus / Lars Hermanson
- The power to judge : jurisdiction in property conflicts in thirteenth-century Denmark / Helle Vogt
- Disputing property in thirteenth- and fourteenth- century Zealand : the records of Soro donation book / Kim Esmark
- Gifts and society in fourteenth century Sweden / Catharina Andersson
- The field of property devolution in Norway during the late middle ages : inheritance settlements, marriage contracts and legal disputes / Lars Ivar Hansen
- The feelings in the feud : the emotional turn in the study of medieval vengeance / Stephen D. White
- The rules of conflict among the warrior aristocracy of the high middle ages / Gerd Althoff
- Legal history and the history of disputes / John Hudson.