New research into petitions and petitioning in the middle ages, illuminating aspects of contemporary law and justice. The mechanics, politics and culture of pet

Introduction : Medieval petitions and strategies of persuasion / Thomas W. Smith, Helen Killick -- Blood, brains and bay-windows : the use of English in fifteen

The increasing prominence of urban life during the Middle Ages is undoubtedly one of the more transcendental and multi-faceted aspects of this era, having an ef

This pioneering work of political history recovers the central and largely forgotten role that petitioning played in the formative years of North American democ

This volume contains previously unpublished fourteenth-century parliamentary common petitions, the basis for much of the royal legislation of the period.