Episode 7: The London Fire of 1666, or the Birth of the Modern State
Program: Oddities of Violence
Length: 58 minutes
Episode 7: The London Fire of 1666, or the Birth of the Modern State
Professor Johannes Dillinger, from Brookes University (England), recovers the memory of a world before the rise of the Modern State, and explains how the fear of organized arson, and of vagabonds, changed it all.