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Observations on English Government from the tenth to the twelfth century

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 February 2009

James Campbell
James Campbell
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Worcester College, Oxford
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Extract

Prudent historians, when they consider the ordered power of the late Anglo-Saxon state, are apt to indulge a professional instinct, to hedge their bets. Such phrases as ‘specious uniformity’ and ‘rudimentary precocity’ have found favour. It has long seemed likely, and it has by now become certain, that such caution is superfluous.

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Transactions of the Royal Historical Society , Volume 25 , December 1975 , pp. 39 - 54
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Copyright © Royal Historical Society 1975

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