“…A couple of years later, two criminal justice historians, Robert Muchembled (1989Muchembled ( , see also 1992 and Claude Gauvard (1991), exploited remission letters to expose the social mechanisms regulating the use of violence in medieval and early modern France, and they also showed how the expansion of royal justice became an essential element for the construction of the State. The success of Davis' , Muchembled's, and Gauvard's books had a lasting impact on the field of history of crime and criminal justice, as testified by the great number of subsequent studies referring to their works (Abreu-Ferreira, 2015; Arnade & Prevenier, 2015;Chaulet, 2008;Duarte, 1999;Erdélyi, 2018;Hoareau-Dodinau, 2002;Kesselring, 2003;Lacey, 2009;Lusset, 2017;Verreycken, 2014), including those produced by the students of Muchembled and Gauvard (Claustre, Mattéoni, & Offenstadt, 2010;Destemberg, Potin, & Rosenblieh, 2015;Foronda, Barralis, & Sère, 2010;Harang, 2017;Paresys, 1998;Prétou, 2010;Roussel, 2012;Ternon, 2018;Toureille, 2006Toureille, , 2013.…”