Public Order and State Violence: A View from Tenth-Century England.

The corpus of law texts surviving from tenth-century England reveals a society that sought to maintain public order without anything resembling a police force. Rather than envisioning order as the product of state coercion, the kingdom's upper-elite legislators understood society to attend to its ow...

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Published in:Radical History Review no. 137; pp. 13 - 35
Main Author: Lambert, Tom
Format: Article
Published: Duke University Press May2020
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