The officer and the people : accountability and authority in pre-modern Europe / edited by María Ángeles Martín Romera and Hannes Ziegler.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Martín Romera, María Ángeles, editor.

Ziegler, Hannes, Dr., editor.

Series:

Studies of the German Historical Institute London

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Government accountability--Europe--History--To 1500.

Government accountability.

Public administration--Europe--History--To 1500.

Public administration.

Communities--Europe--History--To 1500.

Communities.

Authority--History--To 1500.

Authority.

Civilization.

History.

Europe--Civilization--To 1500.

Europe.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

ix, 379 pages ; 23 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2021.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Local Communities and Central Officers: The Rise of Public Accountability / Hannes Ziegler

2. `Testify against Me': The Use of Biblical Exegesis in Holding the Bishop to Account in Thirteenth-Century England / Philippa Byrne

3. The Emperor between Person and Institution: Officer, Office, and Accountability in Dante's Imperial Thinking / John Sabapathy

4. The Prince, his Officer, and the Community: How Secular Inquisitorial Procedures Brought against Officers Contributed to Community-Building in the Thirteenth-Century Comtat Venaissin / Laure Verdon

5. Rules, Norms, and Instructions for the Venetian rettori in the Subject Dominions: Between Central Authority and Local Communities (Thirteenth to Fifteenth Centuries) / Alessandra Rizzi

6. Purga de taula and Other Procedures of Royal Officers' Accountability in the Medieval Crown of Aragon (Fourteenth Century) / Alexandra Beauchamp

7. The Will of the Town: Popular Politics and the Control of Local Governments in Late Medieval Castile / Hipolito Rafael Oliva Herrer

8. Royal Judicial Officials Held to Account by Local Communities in Early Sixteenth-Century Portugal: Fact or Fiction? / Adelaide Costa

9. Controlling Officials: Judicial and Administrative Practices in Early Modern Italian States / Marco Bellabarba

10. People and Sergeants: Accountability and the Co-Construction of Order in Early Modern Paris (Sixteenth to Seventeenth Centuries) / Diane Roussel

11. War Administration: Subjects, Local Officers, and the Contribution System in the Thirty Years War / Johannes Kraus

12. Empowered Citizens and Questioned Officers: A Social and Anthropological Perspective on the juicios de residencia in Spain (Fifteenth to Seventeenth Centuries) / Maria Angeles Martin Romera

13. The Spanish visita Procedure as a Social Phenomenon / Sebastien Malaprade

14. Customs Officers and Local Communities: Informing in Late Seventeenth-Century England / Hannes Ziegler

15. Petition Campaigns and Public Order: Negotiating Administrative Accountability in Early Eighteenth-Century Germany / Niels Grune.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780192848383

0192848380

OCLC:

1259535099

Publisher Number:

99989104416