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Vikings Behaving Reasonably : Nordic "Hóf" in Civic and Legal Rhetoric / Robert L. Lively.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Beyond Medieval EuropePublisher: Leeds : ARC Humanities Press, [2024]Copyright date: 2024Description: 1 online resource (144 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781802702323
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 948.022
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATION -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- Chapter 1 RHETORICAL CONTEXTS IN VIKING STUDIES -- Chapter 2 RHETORICALLY CONSTRUCTING MEDIEVAL SCANDINAVIA -- Chapter 3 GEOGRAPHY AND ITS RHETORICAL IMPLICATIONS -- Chapter 4 THE RHETORIC OF PRAISING AND SHAMING IN THE VIKING WORLD -- Chapter 5 THE RHETORIC OF CIVIC BONDS AND SHAME STRUCTURES -- Chapter 6 “LOUD APPROVAL AT THE LAW ROCK” -- Chapter 7 LEGAL REASONABLENESS IN ACTION -- Conclusion TOWARDS AN UNDERSTANDING OF NORDIC CIVIC AND LEGAL RHETORIC -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX
Summary: Rather than being the lawless barbarian society that history and popular culture have painted it, medieval Scandinavian culture was complex and nuanced. This book fundamentally challenges our stereotypes of the Vikings, and interrogates the use of a “rhetoric of reasonableness” (hóf) in medieval Nordic society to give voice to this hitherto silenced tradition. Civic rhetoric relied heavily on hóf to keep community customs manageable. In small towns and villages without central bureaucracies, reasonableness became important to the peaceful functioning of civil society. Legal rhetoric was also based on hóf. If civic actions became potentially violent, then the courts needed means of redress, and a way to maintain the peace in the locality. The Scandinavian tradition of court cases appears both in the early laws and in several sagas, allowing a picture of the rhetorical stance of hóf to emerge through Nordic legal processes.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATION -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- Chapter 1 RHETORICAL CONTEXTS IN VIKING STUDIES -- Chapter 2 RHETORICALLY CONSTRUCTING MEDIEVAL SCANDINAVIA -- Chapter 3 GEOGRAPHY AND ITS RHETORICAL IMPLICATIONS -- Chapter 4 THE RHETORIC OF PRAISING AND SHAMING IN THE VIKING WORLD -- Chapter 5 THE RHETORIC OF CIVIC BONDS AND SHAME STRUCTURES -- Chapter 6 “LOUD APPROVAL AT THE LAW ROCK” -- Chapter 7 LEGAL REASONABLENESS IN ACTION -- Conclusion TOWARDS AN UNDERSTANDING OF NORDIC CIVIC AND LEGAL RHETORIC -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX

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Rather than being the lawless barbarian society that history and popular culture have painted it, medieval Scandinavian culture was complex and nuanced. This book fundamentally challenges our stereotypes of the Vikings, and interrogates the use of a “rhetoric of reasonableness” (hóf) in medieval Nordic society to give voice to this hitherto silenced tradition. Civic rhetoric relied heavily on hóf to keep community customs manageable. In small towns and villages without central bureaucracies, reasonableness became important to the peaceful functioning of civil society. Legal rhetoric was also based on hóf. If civic actions became potentially violent, then the courts needed means of redress, and a way to maintain the peace in the locality. The Scandinavian tradition of court cases appears both in the early laws and in several sagas, allowing a picture of the rhetorical stance of hóf to emerge through Nordic legal processes.

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