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This volume contains previously unpublished fourteenth-century parliamentary common petitions, the basis for much of the royal legislation of the period.

Introduction : Medieval petitions and strategies of persuasion / Thomas W. Smith, Helen Killick -- Blood, brains and bay-windows : the use of English in fifteen

Between 1780 and 1918, over one million petitions from across the four nations were sent to the House of Commons. A Nation of Petitioners is the first study of

This book deals with one of the most pervasive ways by which people have addressed authority throughout history: petitioning. The book explores traditional prac

New approaches to the political culture of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, considering its complex relation to monarchy and state.