Chapter II: Introduction

SECTION I.: The general principles of blood-vengeance, analysed
and illustrated: customs of modern races in the Balkans, in
the Mediterranean area, and in South America: customs of the
ancient Germans, the Anglo-Saxons, and the Welsh: Burgundian,
Norman, Israelite systems.

SECTION II.: Homeric Society; Views of Loaf and Ridgeway:
feudal militarism and tribalism.