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...
| Published in: | Radical History Review no. 137; pp. 13 - 35 |
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Duke University Press
May2020
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