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Petitions and strategies of persuasion in the middle ages : the English crown and the church, c.1200-c.1550 /

Late medieval petitions, providing unique insights into medieval social and legal history, have attracted increasing scholarly attention in recent years. This wide-ranging collection brings two approaches into dialogue with each other: the study of royal justice and secular petitions presented to th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Smith, Thomas W. (Editor ), Killick, Helen (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Woodbridge, Suffolk ; Rochester, NY : York Medieval Press in association with the Boydell Press, 2018.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Introduction : Medieval petitions and strategies of persuasion / Thomas W. Smith, Helen Killick
  • Blood, brains and bay-windows : the use of English in fifteenth-century parliamentary petitions / Gwilyn Dodd
  • Petitoners for royal pardon in fourteenth-century England / Helen Lacey
  • The scribes of petitions in late-medieval England / Helen Killick
  • Patterns of supplication and litigation strategies : petitioning the crown in the fourteenth century / Petitions of conflict : the bishop of Durham and forfeitures of war, 1317-1333 / Matthew Phillips
  • A tale of two abbots : petitions for the recovery of churches in England by the abbots of Jedburgh and Arbroath in 1328 / Shelagh Sneddon
  • 'By force and arms' : lay invasion, the writ "de vi laica amovenda" and the tensions of state and church in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries / Philippa M. Hoskin
  • The papacy, petitioners and benefices in thirteenth-century England / Thomas W. Smith
  • Playing the system : marriage litigation in the fourteenth century / Frederik Pedersen
  • Killer clergy : how did clerics justify homicide in petitions to the Apostolic penitentary in the Late Middle Ages? / Kirsi Salonen.