Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction: Medieval Petitions and Strategies of Persuasion
- 1 Blood, Brains and Bay-Windows: The Use of English in Fifteenth- Century Parliamentary Petitions
- 2 Petitioners for Royal Pardon in Fourteenth-Century England
- 3 The Scribes of Petitions in Late Medieval England
- 4 Patterns of Supplication and Litigation Strategies: Petitioning the Crown in the Fourteenth Century
- 5 Petitions of Conflict: The Bishop of Durham and Forfeitures of War, 1317–1333
- 6 A Tale of Two Abbots: Petitions for the Recovery of Churches in England by the Abbots of Jedburgh and Arbroath in 1328
- 7 ‘By Force and Arms’: Lay Invasion, the Writ de vi laica amovenda and Tensions of State and Church in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries
- 8 The Papacy, Petitioners and Benefices in Thirteenth-Century England
- 9 Playing the System: Marriage Litigation in the Fourteenth Century
- 10 Killer Clergy: How did Clerics Justify Homicide in Petitions to the Apostolic Penitentiary in the Late Middle Ages?
- Index
Dedication
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 August 2020
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction: Medieval Petitions and Strategies of Persuasion
- 1 Blood, Brains and Bay-Windows: The Use of English in Fifteenth- Century Parliamentary Petitions
- 2 Petitioners for Royal Pardon in Fourteenth-Century England
- 3 The Scribes of Petitions in Late Medieval England
- 4 Patterns of Supplication and Litigation Strategies: Petitioning the Crown in the Fourteenth Century
- 5 Petitions of Conflict: The Bishop of Durham and Forfeitures of War, 1317–1333
- 6 A Tale of Two Abbots: Petitions for the Recovery of Churches in England by the Abbots of Jedburgh and Arbroath in 1328
- 7 ‘By Force and Arms’: Lay Invasion, the Writ de vi laica amovenda and Tensions of State and Church in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries
- 8 The Papacy, Petitioners and Benefices in Thirteenth-Century England
- 9 Playing the System: Marriage Litigation in the Fourteenth Century
- 10 Killer Clergy: How did Clerics Justify Homicide in Petitions to the Apostolic Penitentiary in the Late Middle Ages?
- Index
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Petitions and Strategies of Persuasion in the Middle AgesThe English Crown and the Church, c.1200–c.1550, pp. v - viPublisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2018