administrative kingship

English

Noun

administrative kingship (uncountable)

  1. The government of a country by a sovereign via a formally constituted bureaucracy.
    • 2002 Marta Van Landingham - Transforming the State: king, court and political culture in the realms of Aragon (1213-1387)
      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.
    • 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:
      [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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