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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.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Lacey, Helen (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Woodbridge : York Medieval, 2009.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.