Officers and Accountability in Medieval England 1170-1300

by John Sabapathy

Book Overview

The later twelfth and thirteenth centuries were a pivotal period for the development of European government and governance. A mentality emerged that trusted to procedures of accountability as a means of controlling officers' conduct. The mentality was not inherently new, but it became qualitatively more complex and quantitatively more widespread in this period, across European countries, and across different sorts of officer. The officers exposed...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019884798X
• ISBN13: 9780198847984
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"