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really tho the main effect is with a stateless society you get incredibly strong personal bonds of blood and oath, wholly private law oriented around recompense rather than order...
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...constant warfare and social preeminence of the warrior, division of kingdoms as patrimony and property without regard for the residents thereof...
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...hermetic religious orders and secretive guilds. essentially a landscape of intensely tribal communities, though none with real preeminence
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increasingly convinced the power of the state to enforce norms evenly across a populace is what creates the neutral space that allows the "individual" to emerge...
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...whereas without the "monopoly" you get greater diversity and relative strength of groups but belonging to and hewing close to a group becomes a practical necessity
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the vaunted "exit" was in full force, a simple ceremony in front of a judge was all it took to unilaterally divest yourself from your family
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however doing so was for good reason widely considered unwise. the clan-bond is what protected you from predation in absence of "public order"
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also fun fact, gallo-romans being subject peoples were made to pay tax, but franks were exempt. as fighting men, they paid their dues to their leader in blood
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this created a powerful association of taxpaying with servility. by the carolingian era there was no taxation at all, would remain so until the hundred years
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I'd read the hell out of that
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I don't know what any of those things are but it sounds interesting and I'd read it
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