Medieval Petitions: Grace and Grievance

CONTENTS
TABLES
CONTRIBUTORS
PREFACE
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
1. Introduction: Medieval Petitions in Context
2. Parliamentary Petitions? The Origins and Provenance of the  ‘Ancient Petitions’ (SC 8) in the National Archives
3. Petitioning in the Ancient World
4. Petitioning between England and Avignon in the First Half of the  Fourteenth Century
5. Petitions to the Pope in the Fourteenth Century
6. Understanding Early Petitions: An Analysis of the Content of Petitions to Parliament in the Reign of Edward I
7. Petitions from Gascony: Testimonies of a Special Relationship
8. Murmur, Clamour and Noise: Voicing Complaint and Remedy in Petitions to the English Crown, c. 1300–c. 1460
9. Queenship, Lordship and Petitioning in Late Medieval England
10. Taking Your Chances: Petitioning in the Last Years of Edward II and the First Years of Edward III
11. Words and Realities: The Language and Dating of Petitions, 1326–7
12. A Petition from the Prisoners in Nottingham Gaol, c. 1330
13. Thomas Paunfield, the ‘heye Court of right wisnesse’ and the Language of Petitioning in the Fifteenth Century
INDEX