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Medieval petitions : grace and grievance /

The mechanics, politics and culture of petitioning in the middle ages are examined in this innovative collection. In addition to important and wide-ranging examinations of the ancient world and the medieval papacy, it focuses particularly on petitions to.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Ormrod, W. M., 1957- (Editor), Dodd, Gwilym (Editor), Musson, Anthony, 1966- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Woodbridge : York Medieval Press, 2009.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Medieval petitions in context / W. Mark Ormrod
  • Parliamentary petitions? : the origins and provenance of the "ancient petitions" (SC 8) in the National Archives / Gwilym Dodd
  • Petitioning in the ancient world / Serena Connolly
  • Petitioning between England and Avignon in the first half of the fourteenth century / Barbar Bombi
  • Petitions to the pope in the fourteenth century / Patrick Zutshi
  • Understanding early petitions : an analysis of the content of petitions to Parliament in the reign of Edward I / Paul Brand
  • Petitions from Gascony : testimonies of a special relationship / Guilhem Pépin
  • Murmur, clamour and noise : voicing complaint and remedy in petitions to the English Crown, c. 1300-c. 1460 / W. Mark Ormrod
  • Queenship, lordship and petitioning in late medieval England / Anthony Musson
  • Taking your chances : petitioning in the last years of Edward II and the first years of Edward III / Simon J. Harris
  • Words and realities : the language and dating of petitions, 1326-7 / Shelagh A. Sneddon
  • A petition from the prisoners in Nottingham Gaol, c. 1330 / David Crook
  • Thomas Paunfield, the "heye court of rightwisenesse" and the language of petitioning in the fifteenth century / Gwilym Dodd.