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