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Early Medieval Britain: everything you wanted to know

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What's the Situation With Crime and Justice?

In early mediaeval ireland, people thought in terms of not just how many cows things worth, but how many slaves were things worth. So you might, rather bizarrely, sometimes think of a piece silver worth so many slaves, for instance. We know that was sometimes the approach in ireland. Andt leas into a question from lucy ann barrett here on miste graham, which was, how were criminals convicted with no police? Which is quite an interesting question, and one that sers probably quite hard to get into. But t what's, what wat's the situation with crime and justice? That's a really, really good question. It's also

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