Officer and the People Accountability and Authority in Pre-Modern Europe

The volume focuses on the relationship between officers and local communities in premodern Europe. It contends that communities played a central role in holding officers to account and thereby contributed fundamentally to shaping premodern rule and authority.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

María Ángeles Martín Romera is a Lecturer in Medieval History at the Complutense University of Madrid. She works on the social history and political culture of the later Middle Ages and the early modern period in Mediterranean Europe. From 2018 to 2020 she was a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow at University College London. She has published on late medieval oligarchies, patronage, kinship, women's agency, social networks, and corruption from the late medieval to the early modern period.

Hannes Ziegler is Principal Investigator in a research project on 'Common Informing' at LMU Munich. From 2016 to 2021 he was a Research Fellow in Early Modern History at the German Historical Institute London. He has worked on the history of the British Customs in the eighteenth century and has also published on the history of the Holy Roman Empire.

Zusammenfassung

The volume focuses on the relationship between officers and local communities in premodern Europe. It contends that communities played a central role in holding officers to account and thereby contributed fundamentally to shaping premodern rule and authority.

Produktdetails

• Mitarbeit: Martã-N Romera (Herausgeber), Hannes Ziegler (Herausgeber), María Ángeles Martín Romera (Herausgeber)
• Autoren: Maria Angeles (Marie Sklodowska-Cur Martin Romera
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Inhalt: Buch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erscheinungsdatum: 31.07.2021
• Thema: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte
• EAN: 9780192848383
• ISBN: 978-0-19-284838-3
• Anzahl Seiten: 423
• Serie: Studies of the German Historical Institute London; Studies of the German Historic
• Themen: Europe, European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, Regional Government Policies, Regional, state and other local government policies