The Officer And The People by Maria Angeles Martín Romera, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters
The Officer And The People by Maria Angeles Martín Romera, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

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The Officer And The People by Maria Angeles Martín Romera, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

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This volume focuses on the relationship between officers and local communities in premodern Europe. Its starting point is that communities played a central role in holding officers to account and thereby contributed fundamentally to shaping premodern rule and authority. The volume's main aimsare to further our understanding of popular political participation in premodern practices of officers' accountability, and to shift the emphasis in the study of premodern bureaucracy to the agency of the people. The essays in the volume address different mechanisms of accountability in variousgeographical and chronological contexts, bridging the traditional gap between medieval and early modern studies. Yet none offers a traditional study of officers using institutional and prosopographical approaches. Instead they all shift the focus to the people in their various communities and theirinteractions with representatives of central authority. Taking a bottom-up perspective, the essays thus highlight the role of the people as key actors who exerted tangible and visible control over the officers' behaviour, their self-image, and individual scope for action. Ultimately, therefore, thevolume contributes to the debate about state-formation from below. | The Officer And The People by Maria Angeles Martín Romera, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

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