Petitions and Strategies of Persuasion in the Middle Ages (EPDF) von Thomas W. Smith

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

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 Writde 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