Download or read book Unpredictability and Presence written by Hans Jacob Orning and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2008 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book applies a legal anthropological framework to high medieval Norwegian history. It formulates the question of state formation in a new and challenging way by showing how the king a substantial degree based his dominion on unpredictability and presence.