ABSTRACT
The public services were concerned mainly with justice and finance. Public works were executed through the corvee or forced labour. The emergence of the Christian Church from its simple beginnings in the Apostolate of the Twelve to a world-wide organization with extensive temporal as well as spiritual powers is a development that no student of public administration can ignore. The public administrative pattern had long consisted of a disjointed multiplicity of separate households stemming from a multiplicity of rulers, such as those numerous kings in Sussex whose existence is indicated in the charters issued by Aethelwalh in connection with the Saxon cathedral of Selsey. In England and throughout the West the stage was being set for the emergence of a new pattern of public administration. The chapter looks at the public administration of the new Kingships of the West, the Church of Rome, Islam, and the Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms.
