The limits of strong government:attempts to control criminality in thirteenth-century England.
This article examines how far centrally-directed structures of peacekeeping influenced communal reactions to criminality in thirteenth-century England, and the extent to which developments in the systems and procedures of criminal justice manifested into tighter control over law and order. It challe...
| Published in: | Historical Research Vol. 93; no. 261; pp. 399 - 420 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
6/16/2020
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