William Ian Miller
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 302011 |
|---|---|
| NOME | William Ian Miller |
| PRENOMES | William Ian |
| SOBRENOME | Miller |
| ASSINATURA | MILLER W I |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Michigan |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 28 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 239 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 28 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1983 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2017 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Losing It
In Losing It, William Ian Miller brings his inimitable wit and learning to the subject of growing old: too old to matter, of either rightly losing your confidence or wrongly maintaining it, culpably refusing to face the fact that you are losing it. The “it” in Miller’s “losing it” refers mainly to mental faculties—memory, processing speed, sensory acuity, the capacity to focus. But it includes other evidence as well—sags and flaccidities, aches a…
Feeling Another's Pain
Progress is hardly a given in the humanities or the suspect sciences. In many ways we are not quite as astute as our grandparents, and they not as much as theirs, and so forth in an infinite entropic regress. Would I trade Montaigne or Stendhal's psychological acumen for even the best work that comes from social psychology departments? In this short essay I want to show just how good some medieval people, medieval Icelanders to be exact, were at …
Losing It
The Mystery of Courage
Miller culls sources as varied as soldiers’ memoirs, heroic and romantic literature, and philosophical discussions to get to the heart of courage—and to expose its role in generating the central anxieties of masculinity and manhood.
Eye for an Eye
Mystery of Courage
Is a Gift Forever
Of optimal views and other anxieties of attending to the beautiful and sublime
A meditation on how intrusions of self-consciousness alter, upset, or interrupt aesthetic experiences. The focus is on the impulse to identify optimum moments in sunsets, fall foliage, etc., and possible explanations for this urge to identify the optimum. Then follow, by various associations of ideas, discussions of the anxieties of the expert who fears he is no longer moved by great works, to the general anxieties of properly attending to great …
The Mystery of Courage
The mystery of courage
Few of us spend much time thinking about courage, but we know it when we see it--or do we? Is it best displayed by marching into danger, making the charge, or by resisting, enduring without complaint? Is it physical or moral, or both? Is it fearless, or does it involve subduing fear? Abner Small, a Civil War soldier, was puzzled by what he called the "mystery of bravery"; to him, courage and cowardice seemed strangely divorced from character and …
Weak Legs
Research Article| April 01 2000 Weak Legs: Misbehavior before the Enemy William Ian Miller William Ian Miller Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Representations (2000) 70: 27–48. https://doi.org/10.2307/2902892 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Wil…
"The Anatomy of Disgust" in Criminal Law
Judgments of and about disgust play a critical role in criminal law. Certain homicides, including homophobic ones, may be graded more severely or less because they are motivated by disgust; certain forms of punishment, including shaming penalties, express public disgust with criminals; and certain sentencing regimes, including those that use the outrageously or wantonly vile standard, treat an offender's own appetite for disgust as a ground for c…
Gluttony
Gluttony
The Anatomy of Disgust
In The Anatomy of Disgust, William Ian Miller explores the nature and cultural significance of disgust. He argues that disgust is not merely a physiological response but a complex emotion deeply intertwined with our moral and social values. Miller examines the history of disgust in Western culture, tracing its evolution from religious and ritualistic practices to its contemporary manifestations in our attitudes towards food, sex, bodily functions…
Humiliation and Other Essays on Honor, Social Discomfort, and Violence
Upward Contempt
Contempt and shame go hand in hand. Actions that should shame us, styles of self-presentation that should humiliate us if we are socially competent enough to have such a purchase on ourselves, are those actions and styles that generate and justify the contempt of others for us. Or, changing the causal order: one's contempt of us will generate shame or humiliation in us if we concur with the judgment of our contemptibility, that is, if the contemp…
Bloodtaking and Peacemaking
In his newest book, published by University of Chicago Press in August, Professor Miller continues to throw open the world of Old Norse studies to interested readers, delving beneath the Vikings' world of brutality and chaos to expose a deeper struggle for social equilibrium. His examination of ancient Iceland's sagas and legal code sheds light on the society that produced them and reveals how the culture of the feud central to this stateless soc…
Bloodtaking and Peacemaking
Bloodtaking and Peacemaking
Some aspects of householding in the medieval Icelandic commonwealth
Cet article réfute la thèse récente selon laquelle le ménage islandais du moyen âge ressortait, pour la typologie, à la famille nucléaire. Pour se documenter sur les types de ménage l'auteur a choisi parmi les textes des sagas et des documents légaux, seuls témoignages écrits de l'époque. La nature de ces témoignages demande des réserves quant aux conclusions, mais il faut bien constater la présence fréquente d'une variété de ménages complexes. L…
Gift, Sale, Payment, Raid
Near the end of Eyrbyggja saga Porir asks Ospak and his men where they had gotten the goods they were carrying. Ospak said that they had gotten them at Pambardal. "How did you come by them?" said Porir. Ospak answered, "They were not given, they were not paid to me, nor were they sold either." Ospak had earlier that evening raided the house of a farmer called Alf and made away with enough to burden four horses. And this was exactly what he told P…
Disputes and Settlements
Journal Article Disputes and Settlements: Law and Human Relations in the West Get access Bossy John, ed., Disputes and Settlements: Law and Human Relations in the West. Past and Present Publications. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983. ix, 296 pp. $49.50. William Ian Miller William Ian Miller University of Michigan Law School Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volum…
Feud in the Icelandic Saga . Jesse L. Byock
Deep Inner Lives, Individualism and People of Honour
With the exception of St Augustine and perhaps Abelard, often praised as modern before their time, it is not unusual to find it maintained that the individual was not available in any serious conceptual, psychological or even sociological way before the seventeenth century. Our thick and deep self, according to this view, is thus a rather recent phenomenon. Some more expansive souls find the individual already emerging a century earlier, during t…
The Anatomy of Disgust
In The Anatomy of Disgust, William Ian Miller explores the nature and cultural significance of disgust. He argues that disgust is not merely a physiological response but a complex emotion deeply intertwined with our moral and social values. Miller examines the history of disgust in Western culture, tracing its evolution from religious and ritualistic practices to its contemporary manifestations in our attitudes towards food, sex, bodily functions…
Bloodtaking and Peacemaking
"The Anatomy of Disgust" in Criminal Law
Judgments of and about disgust play a critical role in criminal law. Certain homicides, including homophobic ones, may be graded more severely or less because they are motivated by disgust; certain forms of punishment, including shaming penalties, express public disgust with criminals; and certain sentencing regimes, including those that use the outrageously or wantonly vile standard, treat an offender's own appetite for disgust as a ground for c…
Choosing the Avenger
The late King Hamlet's ghost and þorgerð have similar problems. Both want to oblige someone to take action on behalf of a corpse. And both enlist the aid of part of that corpse or its facsimile in their efforts. Old Hamlet's ghost must busy himself about this matter because he was murdered, and in such a fashion that his body showed no sign of foul play. Clearly, before he can charge someone to avenge him he must announce that there is something …
Gift, Sale, Payment, Raid
Near the end of Eyrbyggja saga Porir asks Ospak and his men where they had gotten the goods they were carrying. Ospak said that they had gotten them at Pambardal. "How did you come by them?" said Porir. Ospak answered, "They were not given, they were not paid to me, nor were they sold either." Ospak had earlier that evening raided the house of a farmer called Alf and made away with enough to burden four horses. And this was exactly what he told P…
Avoiding Legal Judgment
Journal Article Avoiding Legal Judgment: The Submission of Disputes to Arbitration in Medieval Iceland Get access William Ian Miller William Ian Miller Associate Professor **University of Houston Law Center Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 28, Issue 2, April 1984, Pages 95–134, https://doi.org/10.2307/845219 Published: 01 April 1984
Feeling Another's Pain
Progress is hardly a given in the humanities or the suspect sciences. In many ways we are not quite as astute as our grandparents, and they not as much as theirs, and so forth in an infinite entropic regress. Would I trade Montaigne or Stendhal's psychological acumen for even the best work that comes from social psychology departments? In this short essay I want to show just how good some medieval people, medieval Icelanders to be exact, were at …
Gluttony
Is a Gift Forever
Gluttony
Upward Contempt
Contempt and shame go hand in hand. Actions that should shame us, styles of self-presentation that should humiliate us if we are socially competent enough to have such a purchase on ourselves, are those actions and styles that generate and justify the contempt of others for us. Or, changing the causal order: one's contempt of us will generate shame or humiliation in us if we concur with the judgment of our contemptibility, that is, if the contemp…
Some aspects of householding in the medieval Icelandic commonwealth
Cet article réfute la thèse récente selon laquelle le ménage islandais du moyen âge ressortait, pour la typologie, à la famille nucléaire. Pour se documenter sur les types de ménage l'auteur a choisi parmi les textes des sagas et des documents légaux, seuls témoignages écrits de l'époque. La nature de ces témoignages demande des réserves quant aux conclusions, mais il faut bien constater la présence fréquente d'une variété de ménages complexes. L…
Choosing the Avenger
The late King Hamlet's ghost and þorgerð have similar problems. Both want to oblige someone to take action on behalf of a corpse. And both enlist the aid of part of that corpse or its facsimile in their efforts. Old Hamlet's ghost must busy himself about this matter because he was murdered, and in such a fashion that his body showed no sign of foul play. Clearly, before he can charge someone to avenge him he must announce that there is something …
Feud in the Icelandic Saga . Jesse L. Byock
The Scope of a Spanish Grammar for Minimal Communicative Competence
Foreign language teachers have long recognized that it is neither possible nor necessary to teach a complete grammar of Spanish in a course designed to develop communicative competence. Studies of colloquial usage show that even a native‐like command of the grammar can consist of far fewer verb forms than are traditionally thought necessary. Basing himself on these studies, the author proposes a minimal grammar of verb forms for correct active us…
Avoiding Legal Judgment
Journal Article Avoiding Legal Judgment: The Submission of Disputes to Arbitration in Medieval Iceland Get access William Ian Miller William Ian Miller Associate Professor **University of Houston Law Center Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 28, Issue 2, April 1984, Pages 95–134, https://doi.org/10.2307/845219 Published: 01 April 1984
Gift, Sale, Payment, Raid
Near the end of Eyrbyggja saga Porir asks Ospak and his men where they had gotten the goods they were carrying. Ospak said that they had gotten them at Pambardal. "How did you come by them?" said Porir. Ospak answered, "They were not given, they were not paid to me, nor were they sold either." Ospak had earlier that evening raided the house of a farmer called Alf and made away with enough to burden four horses. And this was exactly what he told P…
Disputes and Settlements
Journal Article Disputes and Settlements: Law and Human Relations in the West Get access Bossy John, ed., Disputes and Settlements: Law and Human Relations in the West. Past and Present Publications. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983. ix, 296 pp. $49.50. William Ian Miller William Ian Miller University of Michigan Law School Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volum…
Some aspects of householding in the medieval Icelandic commonwealth
Cet article réfute la thèse récente selon laquelle le ménage islandais du moyen âge ressortait, pour la typologie, à la famille nucléaire. Pour se documenter sur les types de ménage l'auteur a choisi parmi les textes des sagas et des documents légaux, seuls témoignages écrits de l'époque. La nature de ces témoignages demande des réserves quant aux conclusions, mais il faut bien constater la présence fréquente d'une variété de ménages complexes. L…
Bloodtaking and Peacemaking
Bloodtaking and Peacemaking
Bloodtaking and Peacemaking
In his newest book, published by University of Chicago Press in August, Professor Miller continues to throw open the world of Old Norse studies to interested readers, delving beneath the Vikings' world of brutality and chaos to expose a deeper struggle for social equilibrium. His examination of ancient Iceland's sagas and legal code sheds light on the society that produced them and reveals how the culture of the feud central to this stateless soc…
Humiliation and Other Essays on Honor, Social Discomfort, and Violence
Upward Contempt
Contempt and shame go hand in hand. Actions that should shame us, styles of self-presentation that should humiliate us if we are socially competent enough to have such a purchase on ourselves, are those actions and styles that generate and justify the contempt of others for us. Or, changing the causal order: one's contempt of us will generate shame or humiliation in us if we concur with the judgment of our contemptibility, that is, if the contemp…
Gluttony
Gluttony
The Anatomy of Disgust
In The Anatomy of Disgust, William Ian Miller explores the nature and cultural significance of disgust. He argues that disgust is not merely a physiological response but a complex emotion deeply intertwined with our moral and social values. Miller examines the history of disgust in Western culture, tracing its evolution from religious and ritualistic practices to its contemporary manifestations in our attitudes towards food, sex, bodily functions…
"The Anatomy of Disgust" in Criminal Law
Judgments of and about disgust play a critical role in criminal law. Certain homicides, including homophobic ones, may be graded more severely or less because they are motivated by disgust; certain forms of punishment, including shaming penalties, express public disgust with criminals; and certain sentencing regimes, including those that use the outrageously or wantonly vile standard, treat an offender's own appetite for disgust as a ground for c…
The mystery of courage
Few of us spend much time thinking about courage, but we know it when we see it--or do we? Is it best displayed by marching into danger, making the charge, or by resisting, enduring without complaint? Is it physical or moral, or both? Is it fearless, or does it involve subduing fear? Abner Small, a Civil War soldier, was puzzled by what he called the "mystery of bravery"; to him, courage and cowardice seemed strangely divorced from character and …
Weak Legs
Research Article| April 01 2000 Weak Legs: Misbehavior before the Enemy William Ian Miller William Ian Miller Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Representations (2000) 70: 27–48. https://doi.org/10.2307/2902892 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Wil…
The Mystery of Courage
Of optimal views and other anxieties of attending to the beautiful and sublime
A meditation on how intrusions of self-consciousness alter, upset, or interrupt aesthetic experiences. The focus is on the impulse to identify optimum moments in sunsets, fall foliage, etc., and possible explanations for this urge to identify the optimum. Then follow, by various associations of ideas, discussions of the anxieties of the expert who fears he is no longer moved by great works, to the general anxieties of properly attending to great …
Is a Gift Forever
The Mystery of Courage
Miller culls sources as varied as soldiers’ memoirs, heroic and romantic literature, and philosophical discussions to get to the heart of courage—and to expose its role in generating the central anxieties of masculinity and manhood.
Eye for an Eye
Mystery of Courage
Losing It
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