Coercion, vengeance, feud and accommodation: homicide in medieval Iceland.
Quantitative methods were employed to situate medieval Icelandic homicide in comparative context. Estimates of homicide rates were derived from samtíðarsögur, and found comparable with European rural medieval homicide estimates: late twelfth-century Iceland was probably not as violent as a qualitati...
| Publicado en: | Early Medieval Europe Vol. 20; no. 2; pp. 139 - 176 |
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