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Medieval petitions : grace and grievance / edited by W. Mark Ormrod, Gwilym Dodd and Anthony Musson.
- Title
- Medieval petitions : grace and grievance / edited by W. Mark Ormrod, Gwilym Dodd and Anthony Musson.
- Publication
- Woodbridge : York Medieval Press, 2009.
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- Description
- x, 254 p.; 25 cm.
- Summary
- "Medieval Petitions provides an innovative study of the mechanics, politics and culture of petitioning in the middle ages. In addition to important and wide-ranging studies of the ancient world and the medieval papacy, it focuses particularly on petitions to the English crown in the later middle ages, drawing on a major collection of documents made newly accessible to research in the National Archives." "Offering vivid new insights into judicial conventions and the legal creativity spawned by political crisis, these papers offer a closely integrated assessment of current scholarship and new research on these most fascinating and revealing of medieval social texts."--BOOK JACKET.
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- "Essays explore the political contexts of petitioning; the broad geographical and social range of petitioners; the performative qualities of petitioning and its place in the culture of royal intercessional and the fascinating `worm-s eye' view of medieval life that the petitions provide."
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- 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.
- ISBN
- 9781903153253 (hbk.)
- 1903153255 (hbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^2009285859
- OCLC
- 271774890
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library