Introduction : Medieval petitions and strategies of persuasion / Thomas W. Smith, Helen Killick
Blood, brains and bay-windows : the use of English in fifteenth-century parliamentary petitions / Gwilyn Dodd
Petitoners 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 / 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 the 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 Pedersen
Killer clergy : how did clerics justify homicide in petitions to the Apostolic penitentary in the Late Middle Ages? / Kirsi Salonen.