3 'The People of Sweden shall have Peace': Peace Legislation and Royal Power in Later Medieval Sweden

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. CONTENTS V
3. LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES VII
4. FOREWORD IX
5. ABBREVIATIONS XII
6. Introduction 1
7. 1 The King and the Fox: Reaction to the Role of Kingship in Tales of Reynard the Fox 9
8. 2 Flanders: A Pioneer of State-orientated Feudalism? Feudalism as an Instrument of Comital Power in Flanders during the High Middle Ages (1000 -1300) 23
9. 3 'The People of Sweden shall have Peace': Peace Legislation and Royal Power in Later Medieval Sweden 35
10. 4 The 'Assize of Count Geoffrey' (1185): Law and Politics in Angevin Brittan 53
11. 5 Charter Writing and the Exercise of Lordship in Thirteenth-Century Celtic Scotland 67
12. 6 Liberty and Fraternity: Creating and Defending the Liberty of St Albans 91
13. 7 Counterfeiters, Forgers and Felons in English Courts, 1200-1400 105
14. 8 Law, Morals and Money: Royal Regulation of the Substance of Subjects' Sales and Loans in England, 1272-1399 117
15. 9 The Hidden Presence: Parliament and the Private Petition in the Fourteenth Century 135
16. 10 Conscience, Justice and Authority in the Late-Medieval English Court of Chancery 151
17. 11 Appealing to the Past: Perceptions of Law in Late-Medieval England 165
18. 12 Victorian Perceptions of Medieval Jurisprudence 181
19. 13 Historians' Expectations of the Medieval Legal Records 191
20. INDEX 203