Violence and risk in medieval Iceland : this spattered isle / Oren Falk.
Series: Oxford scholarship online: Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2021Edition: First editionDescription: 1 online resource (288 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white, and colour)Content type: text | still image | cartographic image Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780191898280Subject(s): Violence -- Iceland -- History -- To 1500 | Violence -- Research -- Methodology | Sagas -- History and criticism | Politics and Government | Sociology & anthropologyAdditional Physical Form: Print version : 9780198866046DDC classification: 303.60949120902 LOC classification: HM886Online resources: Oxford scholarship online Summary: Historians spend a lot of time thinking about violence: bloodshed and feats of heroism punctuate practically every narration of the past. Yet historians have been slow to subject 'violence' itself to conceptual analysis. What aspects of the past do we designate violent? To what methodological assumptions do we commit ourselves when we employ this term? How may we approach the category 'violence' in a specifically historical way, and what is it that we explain when we write its history? Astonishingly, such questions are seldom even voiced, much less debated, in the historical literature. This book lays out a cultural history model for understanding violence. Using interdisciplinary tools, it argues that violence is a positively constructed asset, deployed along three principal axes - power, signification, and risk.| Item type | Current library | Class number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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This edition also issued in print: 2021.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Historians spend a lot of time thinking about violence: bloodshed and feats of heroism punctuate practically every narration of the past. Yet historians have been slow to subject 'violence' itself to conceptual analysis. What aspects of the past do we designate violent? To what methodological assumptions do we commit ourselves when we employ this term? How may we approach the category 'violence' in a specifically historical way, and what is it that we explain when we write its history? Astonishingly, such questions are seldom even voiced, much less debated, in the historical literature. This book lays out a cultural history model for understanding violence. Using interdisciplinary tools, it argues that violence is a positively constructed asset, deployed along three principal axes - power, signification, and risk.
Specialized.
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