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Book Synopsis Medieval Petitions by : W. M. Ormrod
Download or read book Medieval Petitions written by W. M. Ormrod and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2009 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New research into petitions and petitioning in the middle ages, illuminating aspects of contemporary law and justice. The mechanics, politics and culture of petitioning in the middle ages are examined in this innovative collection. In addition to important and wide-ranging examinations 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. A series of studies explores the political contexts of petitioning, the broad geographical and social range of petitioners, and the fascinating worm's-eye view of medieval life that is uniquely offered by petitions themselves; and particular attention is given to the performative qualities of petitioning and its place in the culture of royal intercession. With their vivid new insights into judicial conventions and the legal creativity spawned by political crisis, these papers provide a closely integrated assessment of current scholarship and new research on these most fascinating and revealing of medieval social texts. CONTRIBUTORS: W. MARK ORMROD, GWILYM DODD, SERENA CONNOLLY, BARBARA BOMBI, PATRICK ZUTSHI, PAUL BRAND, GUILHEM PEPIN, ANTHONY MUSSON, SIMON J. HARRIS, SHELAGH A. SNEDDON, DAVID CROOK
Book Synopsis Petitions and Strategies of Persuasion in the Middle Ages by : Thomas W. Smith
Download or read book Petitions and Strategies of Persuasion in the Middle Ages written by Thomas W. Smith and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2018 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction : Medieval petitions and strategies of persuasion / Thomas W. Smith, Helen Killick -- Blood, brains and bay-windows : the use of English in fifteenth-century parliamentary petitions / Gwilyn Dodd -- Petitoners 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 / 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 the 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 Pedersen -- Killer clergy : how did clerics justify homicide in petitions to the Apostolic penitentary in the Late Middle Ages? / Kirsi Salonen.
Download or read book Justice and Grace written by Gwilym Dodd and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007-07-26 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dodd focuses on the private petition and its place in the late medieval English parliament. Concentrating on parliament's role as an instrument of government, a place where the king's subjects brought petitions in the hope of securing remedial action, this book reasserts the importance of this role.
Book Synopsis Petitions to the Crown from English Religious Houses, C. 1272-C. 1485 by : Gwilym Dodd
Download or read book Petitions to the Crown from English Religious Houses, C. 1272-C. 1485 written by Gwilym Dodd and published by . This book was released on 2012-05-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Petitions are vital sources for our knowledge of life in the middle ages. A selection is presented here with English summaries, notes, and introduction.
Book Synopsis Petitions from Lincolnshire, C.1200-c.1500 by : Gwilym Dodd
Download or read book Petitions from Lincolnshire, C.1200-c.1500 written by Gwilym Dodd and published by Publications of the Lincoln Re. This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories of injustice, feuding, chicanery and natural disasters told through the words of Lincolnshire people in the Middle Ages.
Book Synopsis Early Common Petitions in the English Parliament, c.1290-c.1420 by : W. Mark Ormrod
Download or read book Early Common Petitions in the English Parliament, c.1290-c.1420 written by W. Mark Ormrod and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-30 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains previously unpublished fourteenth-century parliamentary common petitions, the basis for much of the royal legislation of the period.
Book Synopsis Women and Parliament in Later Medieval England by : W. Mark Ormrod
Download or read book Women and Parliament in Later Medieval England written by W. Mark Ormrod and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-07-15 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Palgrave Pivot provides the first ever comprehensive consideration of the part played by women in the workings and business of the English Parliament in the later Middle Ages. Breaking new ground, this book considers all aspects of women’s access to the highest court of medieval England. Women were active supplicants to the Crown in Parliament, and sometimes appeared there in person to prosecute cases or make political demands. It explores the positions of women of varying rank, from queens to peasants, vis-à-vis this male institution, where they very occasionally appeared in person but were more usually represented by written petitions. A full analysis of these petitions and of the official records of parliament reveals that there were a number of issues on which women consistently pressed for changes in the law and its administration, and where the Commons and the Crown either championed or refused to support reform. Such is the concentration of petitions on the subjects of dower and rape that these may justifiably be termed ‘women’s issues’ in the medieval Parliament.
Book Synopsis Maintenance in Medieval England by : Jonathan Rose
Download or read book Maintenance in Medieval England written by Jonathan Rose and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-06-22 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book covering those who abused and misused the legal system in medieval England and the initial attempts of the Anglo-American legal system to deal with these forms of legal corruption. Maintenance, in the sense of intermeddling in another person's litigation, was a source of repeated complaint in medieval England. This book reveals for the first time what actually transpired in the resultant litigation. Extensive study of the primary sources shows that the statutes prohibiting maintenance did not achieve their objectives because legal proceedings were rarely brought against those targeted by the statutes: the great and the powerful. Illegal maintenance was less extensive than frequently asserted because medieval judges recognized a number of valid justifications for intermeddling in litigation. Further, the book casts doubt on the effectiveness of the statutory regulation of livery. This is a treasure trove for legal historians, literature scholars, lawyers, and academic libraries.
Book Synopsis Language and Culture in Medieval Britain by : Jocelyn Wogan-Browne
Download or read book Language and Culture in Medieval Britain written by Jocelyn Wogan-Browne and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2013 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this volume form a new cultural history focused round, but not confined to, the presence and interactions of francophone speakers, writers, readers, texts and documents in England from the 11th to the later 15th century.
Book Synopsis Petitioning in the Atlantic World, c. 1500–1840 by : Miguel Dantas da Cruz
Download or read book Petitioning in the Atlantic World, c. 1500–1840 written by Miguel Dantas da Cruz and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals with one of the most pervasive ways by which people have addressed authority throughout history: petitioning. The book explores traditional practices and institutions, as well as the transformation of petitions as vehicles of popular politics. The ability or the right to petition was also a crucial element for the development and operation of early modern empires, playing a major role on the negotiated patterns of the Atlantic World. This book shows how petitions were used in Europe, America and Africa, by the governors and the governed, by the rich and the poor, by the colonists and the colonised and by the liberal and the reactionary groups. Broken down into three thematic parts, encompassing both in chronological and geographical scope, the book deepens our understanding of petitioning and its relation with ideas of consent and subjecthood, nationality and citizenship, political participation and democracy. This book provides a rare comparative platform for the study of a subject that has been receiving growing interest.
Book Synopsis Medieval Clothing and Textiles by : Robin Netherton
Download or read book Medieval Clothing and Textiles written by Robin Netherton and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume focuses largely on the British Isles, with papers on dress terms in two major works of literature, the Welsh Mabinogion and the Middle English Pearl; a study of a 13th-century royal bride's trousseau.
Book Synopsis Poverty and Charity in the Jewish Community of Medieval Egypt by : Mark R. Cohen
Download or read book Poverty and Charity in the Jewish Community of Medieval Egypt written by Mark R. Cohen and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009-01-10 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What was it like to be poor in the Middle Ages? In the past, the answer to this question came only from institutions and individuals who gave relief to the less fortunate. This book, by one of the top scholars in the field, is the first comprehensive book to study poverty in a premodern Jewish community--from the viewpoint of both the poor and those who provided for them. Mark Cohen mines the richest body of documents available on the matter: the papers of the Cairo Geniza. These documents, located in the Geniza, a hidden chamber for discarded papers situated in a medieval synagogue in Old Cairo, were preserved largely unharmed for more than nine centuries due to an ancient custom in Judaism that prohibited the destruction of pages of sacred writing. Based on these papers, the book provides abundant testimony about how one large and important medieval Jewish community dealt with the constant presence of poverty in its midst. Building on S. D. Goitein's Mediterranean Society and inspired also by research on poverty and charity in medieval and early modern Europe, it provides a clear window onto the daily lives of the poor. It also illuminates private charity, a subject that has long been elusive to the medieval historian. In addition, Cohen's work functions as a detailed case study of an important phenomenon in human history. Cohen concludes that the relatively narrow gap between the poor and rich, and the precariousness of wealth in general, combined to make charity "one of the major agglutinates of Jewish associational life" during the medieval period.
Book Synopsis Obligation, Entitlement and Dispute under the English Poor Laws by : Peter Jones
Download or read book Obligation, Entitlement and Dispute under the English Poor Laws written by Peter Jones and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-25 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With its focus on poverty and welfare in England between the seventeenth and later nineteenth centuries, this book addresses a range of questions that are often thought of as essentially “modern”: How should the state support those in work but who do not earn enough to get by? How should communities deal with in-migrants and immigrants who might have made only the lightest contribution to the economic and social lives of those communities? What basket of welfare rights ought to be attached to the status of citizen? How might people prove, maintain and pass on a sense of “belonging” to a place? How should and could the poor navigate a welfare system which was essentially discretionary? What agency could the poor have and how did ordinary officials understand their respective duties to the poor and to taxpayers? And how far was the state successful in introducing, monitoring and maintaining a uniform welfare system which matched the intent and letter of the law? This volume takes these core questions as a starting point. Synthesising a rich body of sources ranging from pauper letters through to legal cases in the highest courts in the land, this book offers a re-evaluation of the Old and New Poor Laws. Challenging traditional chronological dichotomies, it evaluates and puts to use new sources, and questions a range of long-standing assumptions about the experience of being poor. In doing so, the compelling voices of the poor move to centre stage and provide a human dimension to debates about rights, obligations and duties under the Old and New Poor Laws.
Book Synopsis Democracy by Petition by : Daniel Carpenter
Download or read book Democracy by Petition written by Daniel Carpenter and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 649 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This pioneering work of political history recovers the central and largely forgotten role that petitioning played in the formative years of North American democracy. Known as the age of democracy, the nineteenth century witnessed the extension of the franchise and the rise of party politics. As Daniel Carpenter shows, however, democracy in America emerged not merely through elections and parties, but through the transformation of an ancient political tool: the petition. A statement of grievance accompanied by a list of signatures, the petition afforded women and men excluded from formal politics the chance to make their voices heard and to reshape the landscape of political possibility. Democracy by Petition traces the explosion and expansion of petitioning across the North American continent. Indigenous tribes in Canada, free Blacks from Boston to the British West Indies, Irish canal workers in Indiana, and Hispanic settlers in territorial New Mexico all used petitions to make claims on those in power. Petitions facilitated the extension of suffrage, the decline of feudal land tenure, and advances in liberty for women, African Americans, and Indigenous peoples. Even where petitioners failed in their immediate aims, their campaigns advanced democracy by setting agendas, recruiting people into political causes, and fostering aspirations of equality. Far more than periodic elections, petitions provided an everyday current of communication between officeholders and the people. The coming of democracy in America owes much to the unprecedented energy with which the petition was employed in the antebellum period. By uncovering this neglected yet vital strand of nineteenth-century life, Democracy by Petition will forever change how we understand our political history.
Download or read book Peasant Petitions written by R. Houston and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-07-02 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the structures and texture of rural social relationships, using one type of document found in abundance over all the four component parts of Britain and Ireland: petitions from tenants to their landlords. The book offers unexpected angles on many aspects of society and economy on estates in the 17th and 18th centuries.
Book Synopsis Early Modern Political Petitioning and Public Engagement in Scotland, Britain and Scandinavia, c.1550-1795 by : Karin Bowie
Download or read book Early Modern Political Petitioning and Public Engagement in Scotland, Britain and Scandinavia, c.1550-1795 written by Karin Bowie and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-28 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book assesses the everyday use of petitions in administrative and judicial settings and contrasts these with more assertive forms of political petitioning addressed to assemblies or rulers. A petition used to be a humble means of asking a favour, but in the early modern period, petitioning became more assertive and participative. This book shows how this contrasted to ordinary petitioning, often to the consternation of authorities. By evaluating petitioning practices in Scotland, England and Denmark, the book traces the boundaries between ordinary and adversarial petitioning and shows how non-elites could become involved in politics through petitioning. Also observed are the responses of authorities to participative petitions, including the suppression or forgetting of unwelcome petitions and consequent struggles to establish petitioning as a right rather than a privilege. Together the chapters in this book indicate the significance of collective petitioning in articulating early modern public opinion and shaping contemporary ideas about opinion at large. The chapters in this book were originally published in the journal Parliaments, Estates & Representation.
Book Synopsis Jews, Christians and Muslims in Medieval and Early Modern Times by :
Download or read book Jews, Christians and Muslims in Medieval and Early Modern Times written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2014-03-27 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together articles on various aspects of cultural, religious, social and commercial interactions between Jews, Christians and Muslims in the medieval and early modern periods.
