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

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.