It can be said that the articles collected in this volume succeed in shedding light on a little noticed field of research on the conduct of offices, state formation and political participation in the pre modern era.
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.