From Ad Hoc to Routine: Case Study in Mediaeval Bureaucracy (The Middle Ages Series)

Ellen E. Kittell

ISBN 10: 0812230795 / ISBN 13: 9780812230796

Verlag: University of Pennsylvania press, Philadelphia, 1991

Beschreibung

Dust jacket: A few small marks to cover, slight wear to ends of spine, unclipped. Preserved in a removable jacket protector. Overall jacket condition is Very Good Minus. Book: A few tiny spots to top page edge, otherwise in first class condition throughout. Overall book condition is Near Fine. Size: 6.25 x 9.25 inches (16 x 23.5 cm). Hardback. Printed pages: x, 265.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 1172E135

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: From Ad Hoc to Routine: Case Study in Mediaeval Bureaucracy (The Middle Ages Series)
• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania press, Philadelphia
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1991
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0812230795
• ISBN-13: 9780812230796
• Einband: Hardcover
• Auflage: 1st Edition.
• Zustand: Near Fine
• Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good
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Inhaltsangabe

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

Reseña del editor

This study focuses on the evolution of the office of General Receiver of Flanders from 1262 to 1372, and proposes that the emergence of such an office was a crucial factor in the formation of the modern state during the Middle Ages. As the commercial and industrial centre of Northern Europe, the county of Flanders was early in developing a financial apparatus, yet careful examination of a wide variety of Flemish financial records reveals that the Count of Flanders had no preconceived plan for the creation of a central financial office. Instead, the office was formed and sustained by an internal dynamic in which initially ad hoc actions evolved into administrative routine. Where formerly there had existed only a disparate set of functions, confined to no particular member of the Count's household, there gradually evolved a permanent official position - the General Receiver - salaried and accountable, with the management of the county's finances.