administrative kingship

Noun

 * 1) The government of a country by a sovereign via a formally constituted bureaucracy.
 * 2) * 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.