Abstract
The article is about police in its earlymodern meaning - a set of welfare laws and their administration - and not as today an institution, that upholds law and order. The emergence of special police-laws in the Early Modern Period has either been interpreted either as state disciplining or a demand from the subjects. In this article I argue, that this dependes on the historical and local context, as the earlymodern police should be understood as early modern "policy".
| Original language | Danish |
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| Journal | Historie |
| Issue number | 1 |
| Pages (from-to) | 1-34 |
| Number of pages | 34 |
| ISSN | 0107-4725 |
| Publication status | Published - 2009 |
Keywords
- State formation
- Police history