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Officers and Accountability in Medieval England 1170-1300 (Paperback)
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Officers and Accountability in Medieval England 1170-1300 (Paperback)
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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 to these methods were not just 'state' ones, but also
seignorial, ecclasistical, and university-college officers, as well
as urban-communal ones. This study surveys these officers and the
practices used to regulate them in England. It places them not only
within a British context but also a wide European one and explores
how administration, law, politics, and norms tried to control the
insolence of office. The devices for institutionalising
accountability analysed here reflected an extraordinarily creative
response in England, and beyond, to the problem of complex
government: inquests, audits, accounts, scrutiny panels,
sindication. Many of them have shaped the way in which we think
about accountability today. Some remain with us. So too do their
practical problems. How can one delegate control effectively? How
does accountability relate to responsibility? What relationship
does accountability have with justice? This study offers answers
for these questions in the Middle Ages, and is the first of its
kind dedicated to an examination of this important topic in this
period.
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