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administrative kingship

administrative kingship noun: the government of a country by a sovereign via a formally constituted bureaucracy.

Noun

administrative kingship (uncountable)

  1. The government of a country by a sovereign via a formally constituted bureaucracy.
    • 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.2002 Marta Van Landingham - Transforming the State: king, court and political culture in the realms of Aragon (1213-1387)
    • [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...2021, Tracy Borman, Crown and Sceptre: A New History of the British Monarchy, from William the Conqueror to Elizabeth II, Grove Atlantic, →ISBN, pages 27-28

Questions about administrative kingship

What does administrative kingship mean?
Administrative kingship means the government of a country by a sovereign via a formally constituted bureaucracy.
What part of speech is administrative kingship?
Administrative kingship is a noun.

Words near administrative kingship in the dictionary

  1. administrations
  2. administrationspeak
  3. administrative
  4. administrative court
  5. administrative courts
  6. administrative kingship
  7. administrative law
  8. administrative lead time
  9. administrative lead times
  10. administrative leave
  11. administrative leaves

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