Different strokes: judicial violence in Viking-Age England and Scandinavia

Ruiter, Keith; Ashby, Steven P.

Abstract

This paper takes a fresh look at the use of judicial violence in the societies of Viking-Age England and Scandinavia. Using interdisciplinary methodologies, it considers legal, historical, literary, and archaeological evidence for judicially-prescribed maiming and execution. Using this evidence, it describes the English and Scandinavian systems of judicial violence in new detail, reflecting on important aspects of each in turn before turning to a more comparative approach to redirect debate and focus future work.

Citation

Ruiter, K., & Ashby, S. P. (2019). Different strokes: judicial violence in Viking-Age England and Scandinavia. Viking and Medieval Scandinavia, 14, 153-184. https://doi.org/10.1484/j.vms.5.116393

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Oct 16, 2018
• Online Publication Date: Jan 31, 2019
• Publication Date: Jan 31, 2019
• Deposit Date: May 30, 2019
• Publicly Available Date: Feb 1, 2021
• Journal: Viking and Medieval Scandinavia
• Print ISSN: 1782-7183
• Electronic ISSN: 2030-9902
• Publisher: Brepols Publishers
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 14
• Pages: 153-184
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1484/j.vms.5.116393
• Keywords: violence, medieval law, punishment, landscape, Knútr the Great
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/2112222
• Publisher URL: https://www.brepolsonline.net/doi/abs/10.1484/J.VMS.5.116393