Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Tables vii
4. Contributors viii
5. Preface ix
6. List of Abbreviations x
7. 1. Introduction: Medieval Petitions in Context 1
8. 2. Parliamentary Petitions? The Origins and Provenance of the ‘Ancient Petitions’ (SC 8) in the National Archives 12
9. 3. Petitioning in the Ancient World 47
10. 4. Petitioning between England and Avignon in the First Half of the Fourteenth Century 64
11. 5. Petitions to the Pope in the Fourteenth Century 82
12. 6. Understanding Early Petitions: An Analysis of the Content of Petitions to Parliament in the Reign of Edward I 99
13. 7. Petitions from Gascony: Testimonies of a Special Relationship 120
14. 8. Murmur, Clamour and Noise: Voicing Complaint and Remedy in Petitions to the English Crown, c. 1300–c. 1460 135
15. 9. Queenship, Lordship and Petitioning in Late Medieval England 156
16. 10. Taking Your Chances: Petitioning in the Last Years of Edward II and the First Years of Edward III 173
17. 11. Words and Realities: The Language and Dating of Petitions, 1326–7 193
18. 12. A Petition from the Prisoners in Nottingham Gaol, c. 1330 206
19. 13. Thomas Paunfield, the ‘heye Court of rightwisnesse’ and the Language of Petitioning in the Fifteenth Century 222
20. Index 243