IMC 2013: Sessions
Session 1028: 14th-Century Studies, I: Crime, Punishment, and Pardoning
Wednesday 3 July 2013, 09.00-10.30
| Sponsor: | Society for 14th-Century Studies |
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| Organiser: | Gwilym Dodd, Department of History, University of Nottingham |
| Moderator/Chair: | Gwilym Dodd, Department of History, University of Nottingham |
| Paper 1028-a | Gentry Violence in 14th-Century England (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Law, Local History |
| Paper 1028-b | The Beaumes Manor Murders: The Use of Military Pardons in the Mid-14th Century (Language: English) Index terms: Law, Military History |
| Paper 1028-c | The Trial of a Judge of Gascony before John of Gaunt, 1389 (Language: English) Index terms: Law, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Abstract | This session explores aspects of crime and law in the 14th century. The first paper explores what motivated the greater gentry to engage in violence during the 14th century. The discussion case studies Hampshire, Nottinghamshire and Cumberland. The second paper explores the Crown's use of the royal pardon in military recruitment and the organisation of war for the English expedition to Aquitaine in 1345. The third paper discusses a recently discovered document giving the minutes of the trial of Guilhem Boneu, a former judge of Gascony and clerk of the powerful community of Bordeaux, before John of Gaunt in 1389. The document offers an insight into the administration of justice and the political life in Bordeaux in the 1370s and 1380s |