Petitions and Strategies of Persuasion in the Middle Ages - The English Crown and the Church, C.1200-C.1550

An important new contribution to the emerging field of late medieval supplicatory cultures.

List of contents

Foreword - W. Mark Ormrod
Introduction: Medieval Petitions and Strategies of Persuasion - Thomas W. Smith and Helen Killick
Blood, Brains and Bay-Windows: The Use of English in Fifteenth-Century Parliamentary Petitions - Gwilym Dodd
Petitioners for Royal Pardon in Fourteenth-Century England - Helen Lacey
The Scribes of Petitions in Late Medieval England - Helen Killick
Patterns of Supplication and Litigation Strategies: Petitioning the Crown in the Fourteenth Century - Anthony Musson
Petitions of Conflict: The Bishop of Durham and Forfeitures of War, 1317-1333 - Matthew Phillips
A Tale of Two Abbots: Petitions for the Recovery of Churches in England by the Abbots of Jedburgh and Arbroath in 1328 - Shelagh Sneddon
'By Force and Arms': Lay Invasion, the Writ de vi laica amovenda and Tensions of State and Church in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries - Philippa M. Hoskin
The Papacy, Petitioners and Benefices in Thirteenth-Century England - Thomas W. Smith
Playing the System: Marriage Litigation in the Fourteenth Century - Frederik J G Pedersen
Killer Clergy: How did Clerics Justify Homicide in Petitions to the Apostolic Penitentiary in the Late Middle Ages? - Kirsi Salonen

About the author

Thomas W. Smith, Helen Killick

Product details

• Authors: Helen Killick, Thomas W. Smith
• Assisted by: Helen Killick (Editor), Thomas W Smith (Editor), Thomas W. Smith (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.12.2018
• EAN: 9781903153833
• ISBN: 978-1-903153-83-3
• No. of pages: 234
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 14 mm
• Weight: 513 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Middle Ages; Social sciences, law, business > Law > General, dictionaries; Englisch, Europa, 1000 bis 1500 nach Christus