Officers and Accountability in Medieval England 1170-1300

A volume which examines twelfth and thirteenth century officers and the practices used to regulate them in England, placing them not only within a British context but also a wider European one and exploring how administration, law, politics, and norms where used to control the insolence of office.

List of contents

• 1: Introduction


• 2: Bailiffs and stewards


• 3: Sheriffs


• 4: Bishops


• 5: Wardens and Fellows


• 6: Conclusions


• Select Bibliography

About the author

John Sabapathy is a Senior Lecturer in Medieval History at University College London. He is the co-editor of Individuals and Institutions in Medieval Scholasticism and is writing The Cultivation of Christendom, a history of thirteenth-century Europe for the Oxford History of Medieval Europe.

Summary

A volume which examines twelfth and thirteenth century officers and the practices used to regulate them in England, placing them not only within a British context but also a wider European one and exploring how administration, law, politics, and norms where used to control the insolence of office.

Additional text

This is undoubtedly an important book and Sabapathy's strength is his complete mastery of the literature of accountability and his ability to draw out useful strands from a huge variety of secondary sources to bring to bear on his theme of accountability and to illuminate his individual examples.

Product details

• Authors: John Sabapathy, John (Lecturer in Medieval History Sabapathy, Sabapathy John
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2019
• EAN: 9780198847984
• ISBN: 978-0-19-884798-4
• No. of pages: 336
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Middle Ages; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political theories and the history of ideas; England, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Middle Ages (449-1066), Political science & theory, Medieval History, British & Irish history, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Social and cultural history, c 500 to c 1000 CE, Political science and theory, European history: medieval period, middle ages, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval