IMC 2011: Sessions
Session 629: 14th-Century Studies, V: Accessing and Exercising Governance
Tuesday 12 July 2011, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | Society for 14th-Century Studies |
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| Organiser: | Gwilym Dodd, Department of History, University of Nottingham |
| Moderator/Chair: | Anthony Musson, Centre for Legal History Research, University of Exeter |
| Paper 629-a | The Government Activities of the Earls, c. 1330-1360 (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Military History, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 629-b | Reason and Right: Letters of Request to Chancery in 13th-Century England (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Language and Literature - French or Occitan, Law |
| Paper 629-c | Form and Substance: Letters to King Edward II, 1307-1327 (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Language and Literature - French or Occitan, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Abstract | This session considers different aspects of 14th-century English governance. The first paper offers a systematic examination of the activities of the earls in the government of Edward III, and argues that their employment by the king was part of a carefully conceived political programme. The second paper examines the language of early letters addressed to the Chancellor, and argues that a tradition of seeking judicial redress directly from the Chancellor existed well before 1300. The third paper examines the form and content of letters and petitions addressed to Edward II, seeking to understand what purposes these different forms of written supplication served. |