商品簡介
This book offers the first study of the royal pardon in fourteenth-century England, using evidence drawn from legal and literary texts, parliamentary records, yearbooks, and plea rolls. Its implications go well beyond legal history, encompassing the major political and constitutional debates of the period, the theological underpinnings of mercy, and the social context of the law. It examines the theoretical context of pardoning as well as the practical implications for those who sought royal mercy: whilst concerns were raised in Parliament about the link between pardoning and lawlessness, MPs themselves were often among the diverse range of people who had reason to seek the king's pardon. Different chaptesr analyse the procedures of pardoning, the role of royal mercy at moments of political upheaval (such as at the Peasants' Revolt), and the range of views expressed on this prerogative power. Dr HELEN LACEY teaches in the Department of History at the University of Oxford.
作者簡介
Helen Lacey is Lecturer in Late Medieval History at Mansfield College, University of Oxford.
