Medieval petitions
Subtitle: grace and grievance
By: edited by W. Mark Ormrod, Gwilym Dodd and Anthony Musson.
Contributors: Ormrod, W. M., 1957-; Dodd, Gwilym.; Musson, Anthony, 1966-
Publisher: York Medieval Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Woodbridge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9781903153253
Subjects: Petitions -- England -- History -- To 1500; Intercession -- England -- History -- To 1500; Law -- England -- History -- To 1500; Law, Medieval; Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1066-1485
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.