COERCIVE POLICE STRUCTURES IN ANGLO-SAXON ENGLAND

Abstract

The article, which is based predominantly on the legislative sources, deals with the ways of administration and police within Anglo-Saxon society which was inherited from the barbarian age and then used by a nascent medieval state. There are patronage and hundredal organization among them. Both were coercive obligations put on the subjects by the kings. The land-lords were made king's agents which were warrantors for their men. All free people were made members of the hundreds and the tithings which formed the so called «frankpledge system».

Keywords

• англия
• раннее средневековье
• государство и право
• полиция
• патронат и клиентела
• сотня
• коллективное принуждение
• поручительство
• anglo-saxon england
• law and administration
• police
• patronage and clientele
• hundred
• collective coercion
• warranty
• frankpledge