Justice and Grace - Private Petitioning and the English Parliament in the Late Middle Ages

Zusatztext thoughtful and wide-ranging... an interesting book which in many respects sheds welcome light on an often neglected aspect of the work of the medieval English parliament Dr. Gwilym Dodd is a Lecturer in History at the University of Nottingham Klappentext In this ground-breaking new study Gwilym Dodd focuses on the private petition and its place in the late medieval English parliament (c.1270-1450). Concentrating on parliament's role as an instrument of government, a place where the king's subjects brought petitions in the hope of securing remedial action, Dodd reasserts the importance of this role. His book sheds new light on the concept of royal grace and its practical application to parliamentary petitions thatrequired the king's personal intervention, and contributes to our understanding of the nature of medieval monarchy, and its ability (or willingness) to address the problems that faced individuals and communities in medieval society. Zusammenfassung Focuses on the private petition and its place in the late medieval English parliament (c 1270-1450). This book sheds light on the concept of royal grace and its practical application to parliamentary petitions that required the king's personal intervention. It reasserts the importance of the parliament's role, as an instrument of government.

Product details

• Authors: Gwilym Dodd, Gwilym (Lecturer in History Dodd, Dodd Gwilym
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.07.2007
• EAN: 9780199202805
• ISBN: 978-0-19-920280-5
• No. of pages: 388
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Middle Ages; Social sciences, law, business > Law; England, LAW / Legal History, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, CE period up to c 1500, British & Irish history, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Legal History, Social and cultural history, Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500, European history: medieval period, middle ages, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval