Town Courts and Urban Society in Late Medieval England, 1250–1500

Richard Goddard, Teresa Phipps

Introduction - Richard Goddard and Teresa Phipps Town Courts in Medieval England: An Introduction - Maryanne Kowaleski Borough Court Cases as Legal Precedent in English Town Custumals - Esther Liberman Cuenca The Priest of Nottingham and the Holy Household of Ousegate: Telling Tales in Court - Jeremy Goldberg Female Litigants and the Borough Court: Status and Strategy in the Case of Agnes Halum of Nottingham - Teresa Phipps Courts and Urbanisation: Jurisdiction in Late Medieval Seigneurial Boroughs and Towns - Christopher Dyer The Business of the Leet Courts in Medieval Norwich, 1288-1391 - Samantha Sagui The Black Death and the Borough Court: The Changing Pattern of Social and Judicial Representation in Late Medieval Lincoln - Alan Kissane Justice and Jurisdictions in Late Medieval Chester - J W Laughton Trust: Business Networks and the Borough Court - Richard Goddard Society, Status and the Leet Court in Margery Kempe's Lynn - Susan Maddock Appendix: An Annotated List of Printed or Online Transcriptions and Translations of Medieval Town Courts in Britain to 1500 Bibliography Index