(Source: Boydell & Brewer)
Boydell &
Brewer is publishing a new book on aspects of Medieval royal and canon law in
England.
ABOUT THE BOOK
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 so doing, the volume makes an important new contribution to the emerging field of late medieval supplicatory cultures.
ABOUT THE EDITORS
THOMAS W. SMITH
is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Leeds; HELEN KILLICK
is a post-doctoral researcher at the ICMA Centre, University of Reading.
TABLE 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
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