And in early days, the similarity of Bishops in Council to lords in Parliament was even more marked; for although a Bishop had tenure for life, he was in general elected by the Christians of his diocese (appointment from Rome was far in the future)
I think some time markers are much needed here - I'd like to know about the election by believers/appointment by a king/appointment from Rome timeframe and the protoparliaments/medieval parliament forms timeframe. Also the ration of chosen/appointed bishops.
Extremely interesting notions about the "place" and being a "place" (community) representative, not personal/class etc. representative.
Last, but not least, interesting may be incorporating Polish example into it: the country from outside the Frankish circle, but not outside early Germanic influences; in chich "charter movement" was likely to be less developed (but to what extent less than in other parts of Europe this I cannot say in the moment), but at the same time preserving and developing parlamentary forms and - during elections - usually presenting a king with a charter o liberties to swear it. And finally never experiencing any absolutism, instead parliamentarising itself to death, by unchecked and unbalanced development of one-sided liberties. And actually weakness of cities, which were not able to fight for their chartered liberties likely faciliated the process.
Republic of Novgorod may be worth looking into, as well.
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Date: 2005-12-08 12:39 am (UTC)I think some time markers are much needed here - I'd like to know about the election by believers/appointment by a king/appointment from Rome timeframe and the protoparliaments/medieval parliament forms timeframe. Also the ration of chosen/appointed bishops.
Extremely interesting notions about the "place" and being a "place" (community) representative, not personal/class etc. representative.
Last, but not least, interesting may be incorporating Polish example into it: the country from outside the Frankish circle, but not outside early Germanic influences; in chich "charter movement" was likely to be less developed (but to what extent less than in other parts of Europe this I cannot say in the moment), but at the same time preserving and developing parlamentary forms and - during elections - usually presenting a king with a charter o liberties to swear it. And finally never experiencing any absolutism, instead parliamentarising itself to death, by unchecked and unbalanced development of one-sided liberties. And actually weakness of cities, which were not able to fight for their chartered liberties likely faciliated the process.
Republic of Novgorod may be worth looking into, as well.