This was loyal bureaucracy, their was too much land to roam for a single man and his horse. Too many issues and wars to micromanage and entire kingdom. With enemies like the Anglo-Saxons stability was not a norm. Putting opposition aside like a thirty-three year war and a son who had to spend life in confinement after rumor of conspiracy surfaced. His plan of ruling consisted of as many as 250 strategically located counts who belonged to administrative districts. The counts would determine local disputes, hold a local army, and collect tribute. A fascination idea these counts processed was how to resolve local disputes with the outcome of a "divine" test. They would either burn a hand in boiling water and let the process of natural healing resolve the dispute, or let a body float or drown in a blessed pond. These are some radical ideas that society is glad have been put to rest. These tactics and policies in a whole are very impressive. His role in laying the Latin scholarship impacted the history of the world and so did many more of his
This was loyal bureaucracy, their was too much land to roam for a single man and his horse. Too many issues and wars to micromanage and entire kingdom. With enemies like the Anglo-Saxons stability was not a norm. Putting opposition aside like a thirty-three year war and a son who had to spend life in confinement after rumor of conspiracy surfaced. His plan of ruling consisted of as many as 250 strategically located counts who belonged to administrative districts. The counts would determine local disputes, hold a local army, and collect tribute. A fascination idea these counts processed was how to resolve local disputes with the outcome of a "divine" test. They would either burn a hand in boiling water and let the process of natural healing resolve the dispute, or let a body float or drown in a blessed pond. These are some radical ideas that society is glad have been put to rest. These tactics and policies in a whole are very impressive. His role in laying the Latin scholarship impacted the history of the world and so did many more of his