The royal pardon : access to mercy in fourteenth-century England /

The letter of pardon was a document familiar to the king's subjects in the middle ages; imbued with symbolic resonance as the judgement of the monarch, it also served a practical purpose, offering a last hope of reprieve from the death sentence or life as.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lacey, Helen (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Woodbridge : York Medieval, 2009.
Temas:
To 1500
Geschichte 1300-1400.
Pardon > England > History > To 1500.
Clemency > England > History > To 1500.
Pardon > England > History > To 1500 > Sources.
Clemency > England > History > To 1500 > Sources.
LAW > Criminal Law > General.
HISTORY > Medieval.
Clemency.
Pardon.
Gnadenrecht
England.
England
History.
Sources.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • FRONTCOVER; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABBREVIATIONS; 1 Introduction; Part I Individual Pardons; 2 Procedures; 3 Supplicant; 4 Intercessor; 5 Monarch; Part II General Pardons; 6 Procedures; 7 The Evolution of Group Pardons; 8 Pardoning and Celebration: Edward III's Jubilee; 9 Pardoning and Revolt: The Peasants' Rising of 1381; 10 Pardoning and Revenge: Richard II's 'Tyranny'; 11 Conclusion: Attitudes to Pardoning; APPENDICES: Introduction; 1 Total Number of Pardons; 2 Military Service Pardons; 3 Regional Distribution of Pardons; 4.i Intercessors for Pardon: Edward II, 1307-1327.

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