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Vengeance As Justice: Passages I Highlighted in My Copy of “Eye for an Eye” – The Scholar's Stage

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William Ian Miller’s Eye for an Eye did not make it into my “top ten books I read this year” list for 2017, but it was one of the more thought-provoking things I read last year. Miller is an unusual creature: part law professor, part medievalist, Miller is equally comfortable discussing ancient Hittite legal decrees, the etymology of old Norse runes, the tropes of Elizabethan Drama, and modern tort law. I suppose if you were to take J.R.R. Tolkien, Thomas Schelling, a good dose of dead-pan humor, a pinch of the morbid, and then shook them up together in a bottle, Mr. Miller is the creature who would emerge. Miller’s earliest books were on medieval Iceland’s law and literature. If you are at all familiar with the sagas, it is easy to detect their influence on in the titles of his later works. His obsessions are by and large theirs: Disgust, Courage, Humiliation, Faking It, and so forth. The thread that weaves through each of these (and indeed the sagas as a whole) is the politics of soc

W illiam Ian Miller’s Eye for an Eye did not make it into my “top ten books I read this year” list for 2017 , but it was one of the more thought-provoking things I read last year. Miller is an unusual creature: part law professor, part medievalist, Miller is equally comfortable discussing ancient Hittite legal decrees, the etymology of old Norse runes, the tropes of Elizabethan Drama, and modern tort law. I suppose if you were to take J.R.R. Tolkien, Thomas Schelling, a good dose of dead-pan humor, a pinch of the morbid, and then shook them up together in a bottle, Mr. Miller

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