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"Why
is your axe bloody?": A Reading of Njáls saga
(Oxford University Press, 2014)
Losing
It, in which an aging professor laments his shrinking
brain, which he flatters himself formerly did him noble
service: a plaint, tragi-comical, historical, vengeful,
sometimes satirical and thankful in six parts, if his
memory does yet serve (Yale University Press, 2011);
see the reviews in the New
Republic, Wall Street Journal, Macleans magazine
(Canada), and Times
Higher Education; also the Chicago Tribune and Inside
Higher Ed. Macleans named it to their list of top ten
non-fiction books of 2011; and the Chicago
Tribune named it one of the best books of the year. An
interview is available here.
Audun
and the Polar Bear: Luck, Law, and Largesse in a Medieval
Tale of Risky Business (Brill, 2008).
PDF version.
Eye
for an Eye (Cambridge University Press, 2006); see
interview in Salon.
Faking
It (Cambridge University Press, 2003)
The
Mystery of Courage (Harvard University Press, 2000)
The
Anatomy of Disgust (Harvard University Press, 1997).
(Chosen best book in sociology/anthropology by the
Association of American Publishers, 1997.)
Humiliation
(Cornell University Press, 1993)
Bloodtaking
and Peacemaking: Feud, Law, and Society in Saga Iceland
(University of Chicago Press, 1990)
Law
and Literature in Medieval Iceland (with T. Andersson;
Stanford University Press, 1989)
My CV.
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