Early Common Petitions in the English Parliament, C.1290-C.1420

ISBN-13: 9781108419673 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 310 str.

W. M. Ormrod; Helen Killick; Phil Bradford

Opis

This volume contains previously unpublished fourteenth-century parliamentary common petitions, the basis for much of the royal legislation of the period.

Spis treści

Preface; Introduction; 1. Ministers and officials; 2. Church and religion; 3. Liberties, franchises, and rights; 4. Crime, debt, and the law; 5. Merchants, trade, and finance; 6. War, resistance, and revolt; 7. Multiple petitions; Appendix: chronological list of known common petitions, 1290–1340; Bibliography; Index.