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

Content

• Frontmatter

  p. i

  Martín Romera, María Ángeles; Ziegler, Hannes

• Foreword

  p. v

  Hodenberg, Christina von

• Contents

  p. vii

  Martín Romera, María Ángeles; Ziegler, Hannes

• Local Communities and Central Officers : The Rise of Public Accountability

  p. 1

  Martín Romera, María Ángeles; Ziegler, Hannes

• ‘Testify against Me’ : The Use of Biblical Exegesis in Holding the Bishop to Account in Thirteenth-Century England

  p. 25

  Byrne, Philippa

• The Emperor between Person and Institution : Officer, Office, and Accountability in Dante’s Imperial Thinking

  p. 53

  Sabapathy, John

• The Prince, his Officer, and the Community : How Secular Inquisitorial Procedures Brought against Officers Contributed to Community-Building in the Thirteenth-Century Comtat Venaissin

  p. 77

  Verdon, Laure

• Rules, Norms, and Instructions for the Venetian rettori in the Subject Dominions : Between Central Authority and Local Communities (Thirteenth to Fifteenth Centuries)

  p. 99

  Rizzi, Alessandra

• Purga de taula and Other Procedures of Royal Officers’ Accountability in the Medieval Crown of Aragon (Fourteenth Century)

  p. 133

  Beauchamp, Alexandra

• The Will of the Town: Popular Politics and the Control of Local Governments in Late Medieval Castile

  p. 153

  Oliva Herrer, Hipólito Rafael

• Royal Judicial Officials Held to Account by Local Communities in Early Sixteenth-Century Portugal : Fact or Fiction?

  p. 177

  Costa, Adelaide

• Controlling Officials : Judicial and Administrative Practices in Early Modern Italian States

  p. 201

  Bellabarba, Marco

• People and Sergeants : Accountability and the Co-Construction of Order in Early Modern Paris (Sixteenth to Seventeenth Centuries)

  p. 225

  Roussel, Diane

• War Administration : Subjects, Local Officers, and the Contribution System in the Thirty Years War

  p. 251

  Kraus, Johannes

• Empowered Citizens and Questioned Officers : A Social and Anthropological Perspective on the juicios de residencia in Spain (Fifteenth to Seventeenth Centuries)

  p. 273

  Martín Romera, María Ángeles

• The Spanish visita Procedure as a Social Phenomenon

  p. 299

  Malaprade, Sébastien

• Customs Officers and Local Communities : Informing in Late Seventeenth-Century England

  p. 325

  Ziegler, Hannes

• Petition Campaigns and Public Order : Negotiating Administrative Accountability in Early Eighteenth-Century Germany

  p. 349

  Grüne, Niels

• Notes on Contributors

  p. 371

  Martín Romera, María Ángeles; Ziegler, Hannes

• Index

  p. 373

  Martín Romera, María Ángeles; Ziegler, Hannes