Venality of offices: Difference between revisions
Content deleted Content added
Cut a lot of the LLM nonsense and started over. |
Nominated for deletion; see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Venality of offices. |
||
| Line 1: | Line 1: | ||
<!-- Please do not remove or change this AfD message until the discussion has been closed. --> |
|||
{{Article for deletion/dated|page=Venality of offices|timestamp=20240702201659|year=2024|month=July|day=2|substed=yes|help=off}} |
|||
<!-- Once discussion is closed, please place on talk page: {{Old AfD multi|page=Venality of offices|date=2 July 2024|result='''keep'''}} --> |
|||
<!-- End of AfD message, feel free to edit beyond this point --> |
|||
The '''venality of offices''' refers to the historical practice of selling or auctioning public offices, particularly in Early Modern Europe.<ref name="Doyle">Doyle, William (1996). "Venality: The Sale of Offices in Eighteenth-Century France". Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0198205364.</ref> This system allowed individuals to purchase positions in government, the military, or the church, often with the right to resell or bequeath the office to heirs.<ref name="Swart">Swart, K. W. (1949). "Sale of Offices in the Seventeenth Century". Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague.</ref> |
The '''venality of offices''' refers to the historical practice of selling or auctioning public offices, particularly in Early Modern Europe.<ref name="Doyle">Doyle, William (1996). "Venality: The Sale of Offices in Eighteenth-Century France". Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0198205364.</ref> This system allowed individuals to purchase positions in government, the military, or the church, often with the right to resell or bequeath the office to heirs.<ref name="Swart">Swart, K. W. (1949). "Sale of Offices in the Seventeenth Century". Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague.</ref> |
||
Revision as of 20:16, 2 July 2024
An editor has nominated this article for deletion. You are welcome to participate in the deletion discussion, which will decide whether or not to retain it. |
The venality of offices refers to the historical practice of selling or auctioning public offices, particularly in Early Modern Europe.[1] This system allowed individuals to purchase positions in government, the military, or the church, often with the right to resell or bequeath the office to heirs.[2]
References
Further reading
- Mousnier, Roland (1971). "La vénalité des offices sous Henri IV et Louis XIII". Presses Universitaires de France.
- Kamen, Henry (2000). "Early Modern European Society". Routledge. ISBN 978-0415158657.