Efnisyfirlit

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• List of figures
• Acknowledgments
• PART I: The normal exception and stories from the people
• 1. Creating a story
• 2. Real people and fictional ones
• 3. The individual and microhistory
• 4. The normal exception
• 5. The book
• PART II: Emotional communities in the life and death of Magnús Hj. Magnússon
• 1. In hostile waters
• 2. A harsh life on the farm of Hestur
• 3. Courtship
• 4. Matters of life and death
• 5. Matthildur’s death and the poets
• 6. Saved by the Salvation Army?
• 7. Rape: wrongful ruling?
• 8. The High Court
• 9. Two contrasting arguments: new sources
• 10. Days of hope and fear
• 11. Eternal life
• PART III: In the company of few
• 1. A pointillist portrait of a person
• 2. The conceptual framework of sex and sexuality
• 3. Microhistory, material culture and death
• 4. Fiction and microhistory
• Bibliography
• Index