During the sixteenth century, the medieval Palace of Westminster went from being the most-used royal palace, where the king lived and worked alongside his administration, to becoming solely the home of the law-courts, Parliament, and the offices of state. At the same time, the numbers of individuals who came to the palace seeking governance or to take part in the business of the law-courts increased over the course of the century. While Westminster had earlier been a public venue for governance and royal display, the increasing absence of the English monarch from the palace created alternative uses. Political culture came to focus on Westminster as entirely separate from the court. This article explores how these changing uses created new forms of political and administrative culture. It examines how the administrative offices, particularly the Exchequer, were remade to accommodate changing financial demands and the increasing contact between individuals and the Crown. It argues that the repurposing of the Palace of Westminster created a distinctly different set of relationships between the Crown and the public. This gave the institutions that called the palace home the space to develop as bodies that drew their legitimacy from their representation of the community of the realm as a whole.

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权力大厅：十六世纪威斯敏斯特宫政治和行政文化的变化

在十六世纪，中世纪的威斯敏斯特宫从国王与政府一起生活和工作的最常用的王宫，变成了法院、议会和国家机关的所在地。与此同时，来到宫殿寻求治理或参与法庭事务的人数在本世纪中有所增加。虽然威斯敏斯特宫早些时候曾是治理和皇家展示的公共场所，但随着英国君主不再出现在宫殿中，威斯敏斯特宫创造了其他用途。政治文化开始关注威斯敏斯特，认为它完全独立于法院。本文探讨了这些不断变化的用途如何创造新形式的政治和行政文化。它探讨了行政办公室，特别是财政部门如何进行重组，以适应不断变化的财务需求以及个人与王室之间日益增加的联系。它认为，威斯敏斯特宫的重新利用在王室和公众之间建立了一套截然不同的关系。这为那些以宫殿为家的机构提供了发展空间，这些机构从代表整个王国的社区中获得合法性。