IMC 2012: Sessions
Session 226: The Writing of Petitions in Later Medieval England
Monday 9 July 2012, 14.15-15.45
Sponsor: | Society for 14th-Century Studies |
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Organiser: | James Bothwell, School of History, University of Leicester |
Moderator/Chair: | Chris Given-Wilson, St Andrews Institute of Mediaeval Studies, University of St Andrews |
Paper 226-a | The Unseen Intermediaries: Who Wrote Petitions? (Language: English) Index terms: Charters and Diplomatics, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
Paper 226-b | The Common Profit of King and Kingdom: The Political Language of Petitioning, 1300-1450 (Language: English) Index terms: Charters and Diplomatics, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
Paper 226-c | 'And Another Thing… ': Multiple Requests in 14th-Century Petitions (Language: English) Index terms: Charters and Diplomatics, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
Abstract | This session presents the preliminary findings of research carried out as part of the larger project 'Making Medieval English Manuscripts: New Knowledge, New Technologies' funded by the Mellon Foundation. These papers form part of a sub-strand to this wider project - 'The Writing of Petitions in Later Medieval England' - which focusses on the appearance and form of the petitions in The National Archives series SC 8 ('Ancient Petitions'). The aim of the sub-project is to demonstrate the importance and advantage of engaging with digital technologies in the study of petitions. Each paper considers quite distinct subject areas in fulfilment of this goal: the palaeographical profile of the scribal hands employed in writing petitions; the use of language and political discourse to construct the requests; and the physical form and structure of the documents themselves. |