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Recenze: Michael Mann: The Sources of Social Power. Volume I: A History of Power from Beginning to A. D. 1760. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1986/2007, 15th edition, 549 pp.

This article discusses the historical background to the medieval Icelandic sagas. It draws on the work of Icelandic historians, especially Gunnar Karlsson, to argue that the key factor was a distinctive political order e...