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

María Ángeles Martín Romera, Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, annes Ziegler, Research Fellow for Early Modern British History, German Historical Institute

María Ángeles Martín Romera is a Lecturer in Medieval History at the Complutense University of Madrid. She works on the social history and political culture of the later Middle Ages and the early modern period in Mediterranean Europe. From 2018 to 2020 she was a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow at
University College London. She has published on late medieval oligarchies, patronage, kinship, women's agency, social networks, and corruption from the late medieval to the early modern period.

Hannes Ziegler is Principal Investigator in a research project on 'Common Informing' at LMU Munich. From 2016 to 2021 he was a Research Fellow in Early Modern History at the German Historical Institute London. He has worked on the history of the British Customs in the eighteenth century and has
also published on the history of the Holy Roman Empire.

1. Local Communities and Central Officers: The Rise of Public Accountability, María Ángeles Martín Romera and Hannes Ziegler
2. 'Testify Against Me': The Use of Biblical Exegesis in Holding the Bishop to Account in Thirteenth-Century England, Philippa Byrne
3. The Emperor between Person and Institution: Officer, Office, and Accountability in Dante's Imperial Thinking, John Sabapathy
4. The Prince, his Officer, and the Community: How Secular Inquisitorial Procedures brought against Officers Contributed to Community-Building in the Thirteenth-Century Comtat Venaissin, Laure Verdon
5. Rules, Norms, and Instructions for the Venetian rettori in the Subject Dominions: Between Central Authority and Local Communities (Thirteenth to Fifteenth Centuries), Alessandra Rizzi
6. Purga de taula and other Procedures of Royal Officers' Accountability in the Medieval Crown of Aragon (Fourteenth Century), Alexandra Beauchamp
7. The Will of the Town: Popular Politics and the Control of Local Governments in Late Medieval Castile, Hipólito Rafael Oliva Herrer
8. Royal Judicial Officials Held to Account by Local Communities in Early Sixteenth-Century Portugal: Fact or Fiction?, Adelaide Costa
9. Controlling Officials: Judicial and Administrative Practices in Early Modern Italian States, Marco Bellabarba
10. People and Sergeants: Accountability and the Co-Construction of Order in Early Modern Paris (Sixteenth to Seventeenth Centuries), Diane Roussel
11. War Administration: Subjects, Local Officers, and the Contribution System in the Thirty Years War, Johannes Kraus
12. Empowered Citizens and Questioned Officers: A Social and Anthropological Perspective on the juicios de residencia in Spain (Fifteenth to Seventeenth Centuries), María Ángeles Martín Romera
13. The Spanish Visita Procedure as a Social Phenomenon, Sébastien Malaprade
14. Customs Officers and Local Communities: Informing in Late Seventeenth-Century England, Hannes Ziegler
15. Petition Campaigns and Public Order: Negotiating Administrative Accountability in Early Eighteenth-Century Germany, Niels Grüne
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