Book contents
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- List of Illustrations
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Jane Laughton: In Memoriam
- 1 Town Courts in Medieval England: An Introduction
- 2 Borough Court Cases as Legal Precedent in English Town Custumals
- 3 The Priest of Nottingham and the Holy Household of Ousegate: Telling Tales in Court
- 4 Female Litigants and the Borough Court: Status and Strategy in the Case of Agnes Halum of Nottingham
- 5 Courts and Urbanisation: Jurisdiction in Late Medieval Seigneurial Boroughs and Towns
- 6 The Business of the Leet Courts in Medieval Norwich, 1288–1391
- 7 The Black Death and the Borough Court: The Changing Pattern of Social and Judicial Representation in Late Medieval Lincoln
- 8 Justice and Jurisdictions in Late Medieval Chester
- 9 Trust: Business Networks and the Borough Court
- 10 Society, Status and the Leet Court in Margery Kempe's Lynn
- Appendix: An Annotated List of Printed or Online Transcriptions and Translations of Medieval Town Courts in Britain to 1500
- Bibliography
- Index
List of Illustrations
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 September 2019
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- List of Illustrations
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Jane Laughton: In Memoriam
- 1 Town Courts in Medieval England: An Introduction
- 2 Borough Court Cases as Legal Precedent in English Town Custumals
- 3 The Priest of Nottingham and the Holy Household of Ousegate: Telling Tales in Court
- 4 Female Litigants and the Borough Court: Status and Strategy in the Case of Agnes Halum of Nottingham
- 5 Courts and Urbanisation: Jurisdiction in Late Medieval Seigneurial Boroughs and Towns
- 6 The Business of the Leet Courts in Medieval Norwich, 1288–1391
- 7 The Black Death and the Borough Court: The Changing Pattern of Social and Judicial Representation in Late Medieval Lincoln
- 8 Justice and Jurisdictions in Late Medieval Chester
- 9 Trust: Business Networks and the Borough Court
- 10 Society, Status and the Leet Court in Margery Kempe's Lynn
- Appendix: An Annotated List of Printed or Online Transcriptions and Translations of Medieval Town Courts in Britain to 1500
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Town Courts and Urban Society in Late Medieval England, 1250–1500 , pp. vii - viiiPublisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2019