From Ad Hoc to Routine: A Case Study in Medieval Bureaucracy

Kittell, Ellen E.

ISBN 10: 0812230795 / ISBN 13: 9780812230796

Published by University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, 1991

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230 x 150 mm. xii, 265 pp. Navy blue cloth boards in decorative jacket. Jacket is a little worn at extremities, with a few tears at edges. A clean, bright copy. Ellen E. Kittell focuses on the evolution of the office of general receiver of Flanders from 1262 to 1372, and proposes that the emergence of such offices was a crucial factor in the formation of the modern state during the Middle Ages. Includes a note on place names, map of County of Flanders c. 1292, appendices (Chronology of the Counts and Receivers of Flanders; The General Receivers 1262-1372: Class, Family, and Local Affiliations; and The Commissions of the General Receivers of Flanders), bibliography and index.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: From Ad Hoc to Routine: A Case Study in Medieval Bureaucracy
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia
• Publication Date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0812230795
• ISBN 13: 9780812230796
• Binding: Hardback
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good+
• Book Type: Book
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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.