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"Day of Reckoning: Power and Accountability in Medieval France applies recent approaches to literacy, legal studies, memory, ritual, and the manorial economy to reexamine the transformation of medieval power. Highlighting the relationship of archives and power, it draws on the rich documentary sources of five of the largest Benedictine monasteries in northern France and Flanders, with comparisons to others, over a period of nearly four centuries." "The book opens up new perspectives on important problems of power, in particular the idea and practice of accountability. In a violent society, medieval lords, tried to delegate power rather than share it - to get their men to prosecute justice or raise money legitimately, rather than through extortion and pillage. Robert F. Berkhofer II explains how subordinates were held accountable by abbots administering the extensive holdings of Saint-Bertin, Saint-Denis, Saint-German-des-Pres, Saint-Pere-de-Chartres, and Saint-Vaast-de Arras. As the abbots began to discipline their agents and monitor their conduct, the "day of reckoning" took on new meaning, as customary meeting dates were used to hold agents accountable. By 1200, written and rewritten techniques of rule developed in the monasteries had moved into the secular world; in these practices by the origins of administration, bureaucratic power, and governance, all hallmarks of the modern state."--BOOK JACKET.
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Day of reckoning: power and accountability in medieval France
2004, University of Pennsylvania Press
in English
081223796X 9780812237962
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-259) and index.
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