The Royal Pardon: Access to Mercy in Fourteenth-Century England

Pioneering investigation of the royal pardon, at a time of major change in the system of English justice, showing the important part it continued to play.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
Part I: Individual Pardons
Procedures
Supplicant
Intercessor
Monarch
Part II: General Pardons
Procedures
The Evolution of Group Pardons
Pardoning and Celebration: Edward III's Jubilee
Pardoning and Revolt: The Peasants' Rising of 1381
Pardoning and Revenge: Richard II's 'Tyranny'
Conclusion: Attitudes to Pardoning
Appendices
Bibliography

Zusammenfassung

Pioneering investigation of the royal pardon, at a time of major change in the system of English justice, showing the important part it continued to play.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Helen Lacey
• Verlag: Boydell & Brewer
• Sprache: Mittelenglisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 19.11.2009
• EAN: 9781903153284
• ISBN: 978-1-903153-28-4
• Seiten: 272
• Abmessung: 156 mm x 234 mm x 16 mm
• Gewicht: 558 g
• Serien: York Medieval Press; York Medieval Press
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte > Mittelalter; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Politikwissenschaft > Politische Wissenschaft und Politische Bildung; LAW / Criminal Law / General, HISTORY / Medieval, History - General History