Petitions and Strategies of Persuasion in the Mi – The English Crown and the Church, c.1200–c.1550

Thomas W. Smith, Helen Killick

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