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Among the Rabble

Pablo Scheffer: Early Medieval Crowds, 6 November 2025

The Crowd in the Early Middle Ages 
by Shane Bobrycki.
Princeton, 336 pp., £35, November 2024, 978 0 691 18969 7
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... but charges it with having acted ‘incautiously’.) The story gives an insight into what Shane Bobrycki calls the early medieval ‘crowd regime’, the way collective behaviour was organised and represented. Faced with the choice between the threat of Vikings and the threat of a mob, Frankish grandees chose the Vikings. Yet, as ...

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