Petitions and Strategies of Persuasion in the Middle Ages

Thomas W. Smith gained his PhD from Royal Holloway, University of London; he is presently Keeper of the Scholars and Head of Oxbridge (Arts and Humanities) at Rugby School. ANTHONY MUSSON is Head of Research at Historic Royal Palaces. GWILYM DODD is Associate Professor of History at the University of Nottingham, UK. HELEN LACEY is Associate Professor in Late Medieval History at Mansfield College, University of Oxford, UK. Thomas W. Smith gained his PhD from Royal Holloway, University of London; he is presently Keeper of the Scholars and Head of Oxbridge (Arts and Humanities) at Rugby School. The late W. MARK ORMROD was Professor Emeritus of History at the University of York; he published extensively on later medieval history.

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