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• Introduction
• Excommunication
• Outlawry
• Outlawry as secular excommunication
• Excommunication and outlawry in Sturla Þórðarson's Íslendinga saga
• Stories of Aron Hjǫrleifsson, outlaw and pilgrim
• Conclusion

In this book Elizabeth Walgenbach argues that outlawry in medieval Iceland was a punishment shaped by the conventions of excommunication as it developed in the medieval Church. Excommunication and outlawry resemble one another, often closely, in a range of Icelandic texts, including lawcodes and narrative sources such as the contemporary sagas. This is not a chance resemblance but a by-product of the way the law was formed and written. Canon law helped to shape the outlines of secular justice. The book is organized into chapters on excommunication, outlawry, outlawry as secular excommunication, and two case studies-one focused on the conflicts surrounding Bishop Gudmundr Arason and another focused on the outlaw Aron Hjorleifsson.
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• Introduction
• Excommunication
• Outlawry
• Outlawry as secular excommunication
• Excommunication and outlawry in Sturla Þórðarson's Íslendinga saga
• Stories of Aron Hjǫrleifsson, outlaw and pilgrim
• Conclusion

In this book Elizabeth Walgenbach argues that outlawry in medieval Iceland was a punishment shaped by the conventions of excommunication as it developed in the medieval Church. Excommunication and outlawry resemble one another, often closely, in a range of Icelandic texts, including lawcodes and narrative sources such as the contemporary sagas. This is not a chance resemblance but a by-product of the way the law was formed and written. Canon law helped to shape the outlines of secular justice. The book is organized into chapters on excommunication, outlawry, outlawry as secular excommunication, and two case studies-one focused on the conflicts surrounding Bishop Gudmundr Arason and another focused on the outlaw Aron Hjorleifsson.
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• Introduction
• Excommunication
• Outlawry
• Outlawry as secular excommunication
• Excommunication and outlawry in Sturla Þórðarson's Íslendinga saga
• Stories of Aron Hjǫrleifsson, outlaw and pilgrim
• Conclusion

In this book Elizabeth Walgenbach argues that outlawry in medieval Iceland was a punishment shaped by the conventions of excommunication as it developed in the medieval Church. Excommunication and outlawry resemble one another, often closely, in a range of Icelandic texts, including lawcodes and narrative sources such as the contemporary sagas. This is not a chance resemblance but a by-product of the way the law was formed and written. Canon law helped to shape the outlines of secular justice. The book is organized into chapters on excommunication, outlawry, outlawry as secular excommunication, and two case studies-one focused on the conflicts surrounding Bishop Gudmundr Arason and another focused on the outlaw Aron Hjorleifsson.
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• Introduction: Making sense of the Icelandic constitutional reform / Catherine Dupré
• The President and the Constitution / Guðni Th. Jóhannesson
• The reform of the 1944 Constitution and Icelandic constitutionalism / Ágúst Þór Árnason and Catherine Dupré
• Iceland's near-death experience / Kristrún Heimisdóttir
• The role and impact of the constitutional commission in preparing the constitutional revision / Björg Thorarensen
• The work of the 2011 Constitutional Council : a democratic experiment in constitution-making / Salvör Nordal
• Crowdsourcing the 2011 proposal for a new constitution : when experts and crowd disagree / Jón Ólafsson
• The 2011 proposal for a new constitution : analysis and critical comments / Skúli Magnússon
• The 2016 Bill of the Constitutional Committee : three proposals for reforming the 1944 Constitution / Páll Þórhallsson
• Natural resources and the reform of the Icelandic Constitution / Ragnheiður Elfa Þorsteinsdóttir
• Would Article 79 of the 2016 Bill make much difference? : some considerations on the legal consequences of the proposed constitutional environmental provision / Aðalheiður Jóhannsdóttir
• Iceland's new constitution is not solely a local concern / Thorvaldur Gylfason
• A politician's perspective / Katrín Jakobsdóttir
• Conclusion: What has changed? / Catherine Dupré

This collection documents, analyses, and reflects on the Icelandic constitutional reform between 2009 and 2017. It offers a unique insight into this process by providing first-hand accounts of its different stages and core issues. Its 12 substantive chapters are written by the main actors in the reform, including the Chair of the Constitutional Council that drafted the 2011 Proposal for a New Constitution. Part I opens with an address by the President of the Republic and positions the constitutional reform in its full complexity and longer-term perspective, going beyond the frequent portrayal of that process in international discussion as being solely a result of the 2008 financial crisis. Part II offers a nuanced and contextualised reflection on Iceland's innovative approach to consultation and drafting involving lay participants, including its twenty-first-century digital take on 'the people, ' which attracted international attention as 'crowdsourcing.' Part III analyses the main constitutional amendment proposals, and focuses on natural resources and environmental protection, which lie at the heart of Iceland's identity. The final part reflects on the reform's wider significance and includes an interview with the current Prime Minister, who is now taking the reform forward. The volume provides a basis for reflection on a groundbreaking constitutional reform in a democratic context. This long and complex process has challenged and transformed the ways in which constitutional change can be approached, and the collection is an invitation to discuss further the practical and theoretical dimensions of Iceland's experience and their far-reaching implications.
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• Introduction / David A. Carrillo
• No. 1: introduction
• No. 2: other defects of the present confederation
• No. 3: on the proposed Icelandic constitution's environmental rights
• No. 4: on republics and the strength of the union
• No. 5: on the frequency of elections
• No. 6: on the duty of the Icelandic parliament to approve the constitution prepared and voted by the people
• No. 7: homogeneity, heterogeneity, and the constitutional project
• No. 8: other defects of the present constitution (continued)
• No. 9: judicial independence
• No. 10: judicial independence (continued)
• No. 11: freedom of religion
• No. 12: constitutional amendments
• No. 13: separation of powers
• No. 14: convention and the power of amendment
• No. 15: natural resources as human rights
• No. 16: the conformity of the plan to republican principles
• No. 17: one person, one vote
• No. 18: electing and removing the president
• No. 19: the lack of protections for the criminally accused
• No. 20: right to information and freedom of expression
• No. 21: Althingi must act on the new constitution
• Appendices. Constitution of the Republic of Iceland
• Constitution bill (July 29, 2011)
• Venice Commission report

"For the past ten years the people of Iceland have debated whether their nation needs a new constitution, and what a new charter should say. This volume is a collection of 21 essays written by an international team of scholars (all using the pseudonym Civis) that analyzes arguments for and against the proposed new constitution written by the drafting council appointed by Iceland s parliament. These essays were originally published individually by the California Journal of Politics and Policy. This collection is modeled on (and in some cases essays were intentionally written as a pastiche of) The Federalist Papers written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay. Like the original work, this collection is primarily an analysis of the defects in Iceland's present constitution and an explanation of the proposed new constitution's benefits. The authors intend this volume to aid the people of Iceland in their constitutional change process." --publisher's description

• The Codex Regius of Grágás in translation I
• Christian laws section
• Assembly procedures section
• Treatment of homicide
• The Wergild Ring list
• The lawspeakers section
• The law council section
• Additions
• Guide to technical vocabulary.

The laws of Medieval Iceland provide detailed and fascinating insight into the society that produced the Icelandic sagas. Known collectively as Gragas (Greygoose), this great legal code offers a wealth of information about early European legal systems and the society of the Middles Ages. This first translation of Gragas is in two volumes.
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• Acknowledgments; Spelling; Prologue; 1 Introduction: The Institutional Setting and the Ranks of Persons; 2 Making Sense of the Sources; 3 Some Aspects of the Economy: The Problem of Negotiating and Classifying Exchanges; 4 Householding Patterns; 5 The Bonds of Kinship; 6 Feud, Vengeance, and the Disputing Process; 7 Law and Legal Process; 8 Peacemaking and Arbitration; Concluding Observations; Abbreviations; Notes; Works Cited; Index.

Dubbed by the "New York Times" as one of the most sought-after legal academics in the county, William Ian Miller presents the arcane worlds of the Old Norse studies in a way sure to attract the interest of a wide range of readers. "Bloodtaking and Peacemaking" delves beneath the chaos and brutality of the Norse world to discover a complex interplay of ordering and disordering impulses. Miller's unique and engaging readings of ancient Iceland's sagas and extensive legal code reconstruct and illuminate the society that produced them. People in the saga world negotiated a maze of violent possibility, with strategies that frequently put life and limb in the balance. But there was a paradox in striking the balanceOCoone could not get even without going one better. Miller shows how blood vengeance, law, and peacemaking were inextricably bound together in the feuding process. This book offers fascinating insights into the politics of a stateless society, its methods of social control, and the role that a uniquely sophisticated and self-conscious law played in the construction of Icelandic society. Illuminating.OCoRory McTurk, "Times Literary Supplement" An impressive achievement in ethnohistory; it is an amalgam of historical research with legal and anthropological interpretation. What is more, and rarer, is that it is a pleasure to read due to the inclusion of narrative case material from the sagas themselves.OCoDan Bauer, "Journal of Interdisciplinary History"".
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