Honor, Vengeance, and Social Trouble Pardon Letters in the Burgundian Low Countries

Peter Arnade, "Honor, Vengeance, and Social Trouble: Pardon Letters in the Burgundian Low Countries"
English | ISBN: 0801453461 | 2015 | 256 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Among the more intriguing documentary sources from late medieval Europe are pardon letters―petitions sent by those condemned for serious crimes to monarchs and princes in France and the Low Countries in the hopes of receiving a full pardon. The fifteenth-century Burgundian Low Countries and duchy of Burgundy produced a large cache of these petitions, from both major cities (Bruges, Ghent, Antwerp, and Dijon) and rural communities. In , Peter Arnade and Walter Prevenier present the first study in English of these letters to explore and interrogate the boundaries between these sources’ internal, discursive properties and the social world beyond the written text.