Meaning of administrative kingship | Babel Free

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The government of a country by a sovereign via a formally constituted bureaucracy.

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“To study, therefore, the turbulent processes that led to the development of administrative kingship, to the proto-bureaucratization of the royal court, is to study the medieval state.”

“[Of Henry I, who reigned 1100–1135:] Taken together, Henry I's reforms transformed medieval government from an itinerant and often poorly organised household into a highly sophisticated administrative kingship based on permanent, static departments. […] Such was Henry's contribution to the rise of administrative kingship in England that he was lauded by some nineteenth-century historians as the first constitutional monarch.”

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