Petitions and Strategies of Persuasion in the Middle Ages (eBook, PDF)

The English Crown and the Church, c.1200-c.1550
Redaktion: Smith, Thomas W.; Killick, Helen

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Produktbeschreibung

An important new contribution to the emerging field of late medieval supplicatory cultures.

Late medieval petitions, providing unique insights into medieval social and legal history, have attracted increasing scholarly attention in recent years. This wide-ranging collection brings two approaches into dialogue with each other: the study of royal justice and secular petitions presented to the English crown, and the study of papal justice, canon law and ecclesiastical petitions (emphasising the international dimension of petitioning as a legal device exercising authority across Latin Christendom). In so doing, it crosses the traditional demarcation lines between secular and ecclesiastical systems of justice, of particular importance, given the participation by many litigantsand legislators in both of those legal spheres.
A major focus is the mechanics of petitioning - who were the intermediaries in this process, and what were the "strategies of persuasion" they employed? The essays also re-examine the relationship between petitioners and their advisors, and the specific legal, rhetorical and linguistic choices they made in the composition of these texts. In so doing, the volume makes an important new contribution to theemerging field of late medieval supplicatory cultures.

THOMAS W. SMITH is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Leeds; HELEN KILLICK is a post-doctoral researcher at the ICMA Centre, University of Reading.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Abingdon Press
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781787443655
• Artikelnr.: 56248716

Autorenporträt

Thomas W. Smith, Helen Killick

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
W. Mark Ormrod Introduction: Medieval Petitions and Strategies of Persuasion
Thomas W. Smith and Helen Killick Blood, Brains and Bay
Windows: The Use of English in Fifteenth
Century Parliamentary Petitions
Gwilym Dodd Petitioners 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
Anthony Musson 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 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 J G Pedersen Killer Clergy: How did Clerics Justify Homicide in Petitions to the Apostolic Penitentiary in the Late Middle Ages?
Kirsi Salonen