Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- List of Abbreviations
- 1 Introduction: Medieval Petitions in Context
- 2 Parliamentary Petitions? The Origins and Provenance of the ‘Ancient Petitions’ (SC 8) in the National Archives
- 3 Petitioning in the Ancient World
- 4 Petitioning Between England and Avignon in the First Half of the Fourteenth Century
- 5 Petitions to the Pope in the Fourteenth Century
- 6 Understanding Early Petitions: An Analysis of the Content of Petitions to Parliament in the Reign of Edward I
- 7 Petitions from Gascony: Testimonies of a Special Relationship
- 8 Murmur, Clamour and Noise: Voicing Complaint and Remedy in Petitions to the English Crown, c. 1300–c. 1460
- 9 Queenship, Lordship and Petitioning in Late Medieval England
- 10 Taking Your Chances: Petitioning in the Last Years of Edward II and the First Years of Edward III
- 11 Words and Realities: The Language and Dating of Petitions, 1326–7
- 12 A Petition from the Prisoners in Nottingham Gaol, c. 1330
- 13 Thomas Paunfield, the ‘heye Court of rightwisnesse’ and the Language of Petitioning in the Fifteenth Century
- Index
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 February 2023
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- List of Abbreviations
- 1 Introduction: Medieval Petitions in Context
- 2 Parliamentary Petitions? The Origins and Provenance of the ‘Ancient Petitions’ (SC 8) in the National Archives
- 3 Petitioning in the Ancient World
- 4 Petitioning Between England and Avignon in the First Half of the Fourteenth Century
- 5 Petitions to the Pope in the Fourteenth Century
- 6 Understanding Early Petitions: An Analysis of the Content of Petitions to Parliament in the Reign of Edward I
- 7 Petitions from Gascony: Testimonies of a Special Relationship
- 8 Murmur, Clamour and Noise: Voicing Complaint and Remedy in Petitions to the English Crown, c. 1300–c. 1460
- 9 Queenship, Lordship and Petitioning in Late Medieval England
- 10 Taking Your Chances: Petitioning in the Last Years of Edward II and the First Years of Edward III
- 11 Words and Realities: The Language and Dating of Petitions, 1326–7
- 12 A Petition from the Prisoners in Nottingham Gaol, c. 1330
- 13 Thomas Paunfield, the ‘heye Court of rightwisnesse’ and the Language of Petitioning in the Fifteenth Century
- Index
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- Medieval PetitionsGrace and Grievance, pp. i - ivPublisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2009