Petitions and strategies of persuasion in the middle ages : the English crown and the church, c.1200-c.1550 / edited by Thomas W. Smith, Helen Killick.
2018
KD4119 .P48 2018 (Mapit)
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Title
Petitions and strategies of persuasion in the middle ages : the English crown and the church, c.1200-c.1550 / edited by Thomas W. Smith, Helen Killick.
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Imprint
Woodbridge, Suffolk : York Medieval Press ; Rochester, NY : Boydell Press, 2018.
Copyright
©2018
Description
xiii, 220 pages ; 25 cm
Formatted Contents Note
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 / Gwilyn Dodd
Petitioners for royal pardon in fourteenth-century England / Helen Lacey
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
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
Papacy, petitioners and benefices in thirteenth-century England / Thomas W. Smith
Playing the system : marriage litigation in the fourteenth century / Frederik Pedersen
Killer clergy : how did clerics justify homicide in petitions to the Apostolic penitentiary in the Late Middle Ages? / Kirsi Salonen.
Blood, brains and bay-windows : the use of English in fifteenth-century parliamentary petitions / Gwilyn Dodd
Petitioners for royal pardon in fourteenth-century England / Helen Lacey
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
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
Papacy, petitioners and benefices in thirteenth-century England / Thomas W. Smith
Playing the system : marriage litigation in the fourteenth century / Frederik Pedersen
Killer clergy : how did clerics justify homicide in petitions to the Apostolic penitentiary in the Late Middle Ages? / Kirsi Salonen.
Summary
"Late medieval petitions, providing unique insights into medieval social and legal history, have attracted increasing scholarly attention in recent years. This wide-ranging collection brings two approaches into dialogue with each other: the study of royal justice and secular petitions presented to the English crown, and the study of papal justice, canon law and ecclesiastical petitions (emphasising the international dimension of petitioning as a legal device exercising authority across Latin Christendom). In so doing, it crosses the traditional demarcation lines between secular and ecclesiastical systems of justice, of particular importance, given the participation by many litigants and legislators in both of those legal spheres. A major focus is the mechanics of petitioning - who were the intermediaries in this process, and what were the "strategies of persuasion" they employed? The essays also re-examine the relationship between petitioners and their advisors, and the specific legal, rhetorical and linguistic choices they made in the composition of these texts. In doing so, the volume makes an important new contribution to the emerging field of late medieval supplicatory cultures"--Back cover.
Note
Foreword by W. Mark Ormrod.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Call Number
KD4119 .P48 2018
Language
English
ISBN
9781903153833 (hardcover)
1903153832 (hardcover)
1903153832 (hardcover)
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