All Outputs (15)
Town and Crown: Self-Representation and Signification in Fourteenth Century England (2023)
Journal Article
By the start of the fourteenth century the petition was established as one of the most important modes of communication between towns and cities on the one hand, and the English crown on the other. Petitions underscored the need of urban communities... Read More about Town and Crown: Self-Representation and Signification in Fourteenth Century England.
Parliament, politics and protocol: the Modus tenendi parliamentum and the settlement of the realm under Edward II (2022)
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The Modus tenendi parliamentum has long perplexed scholars. For over a century they have battled to make sense of its 26 chapters, which purport to describe the centuries-old traditions, functions and processes of the English parliament. A number of... Read More about Parliament, politics and protocol: the Modus tenendi parliamentum and the settlement of the realm under Edward II.
Henry Knighton, the Commons and the crisis of governance in the 1380s (2021)
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This discussion provides the first in-depth investigation into the meaning and significance of a quite exceptional petition presented by the parliamentary Commons in the reign of Richard II. The petition survives as a unique copy in the chronicle of... Read More about Henry Knighton, the Commons and the crisis of governance in the 1380s.
William Stubbs, Parliament and the Medieval English Constitution (2021)
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Petitions from Lincolnshire, c. 1200 - c. 1500 (2020)
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When the normal channels for righting wrongs or asking favours were unavailable, the people of medieval England petitioned their kings - in parliament, council, or chancery. Lincolnshire's inhabitants took full advantage of these opportunities, and t... Read More about Petitions from Lincolnshire, c. 1200 - c. 1500.
County and Community in Medieval England (2019)
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The following are two typical 'county community' petitions from the first half of the fourteenth century, presented in the parliaments of 1322 and 1344 respectively: 1. To our lord the king and to his council, the community of the county of Lincolnsh... Read More about County and Community in Medieval England.
Law, Legislation, and Consent in the Plantagenet Empire: Wales and Ireland, 1272–1461 (2017)
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In recent years, scholars have begun to look afresh at the dynamics of English “imperial” power in the late medieval period, but the extent to which the English dominions were subject to English law and legislation – and why and how these influences... Read More about Law, Legislation, and Consent in the Plantagenet Empire: Wales and Ireland, 1272–1461.
Petitions from the King's Dominions: Wales, Ireland and Gascony, c. 1290-1350 (2016)
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Grace and Favour: the Petition and Its Mechanisms (2015)
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The Clerical Chancellors of Late Medieval England (2014)
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Reason, conscience and equity: bishops as the king's judges in later Medieval England (2014)
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It has long been recognized that many late medieval bishops were heavily involved in secular government. Scholars have tended to characterize these activities in fairly general terms, labelling those who chose to serve the crown as ‘administrators’,... Read More about Reason, conscience and equity: bishops as the king's judges in later Medieval England.
Kingship, parliament and the court: the emergence of "high style" in petitions to the English crown, c.1350-1405 (2014)
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In the second half of the fourteenth century, petitioners hoping to secure royal grace began addressing the king in an increasingly obsequious and ostentatious manner. A strong historiographical tradition is now established which regards this develop... Read More about Kingship, parliament and the court: the emergence of "high style" in petitions to the English crown, c.1350-1405.
Was Thomas Favent a political pamphleteer? Faction and politics in later fourteenth-century London (2011)
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Thomas Favent's Historia has long been recognised as an important source for the turbulent middle years of Richard II's reign, in particular for its praise of the actions of the Lords Appellant in the Merciless Parliament of 1388. But why did Favent... Read More about Was Thomas Favent a political pamphleteer? Faction and politics in later fourteenth-century London.
Richard II and the Fiction of Majority Rule (2008)
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For Thomas Walsingham, one of the first occasions when Richard II revealed the true nature of his rule came in the Summer of 1383 when, accompanied by his new queen, he went on a “shrine-crawl” of the eastern counties, imposing himself and his househ... Read More about Richard II and the Fiction of Majority Rule.