Kingship, Parliament and the Court: the Emergence of ‘High Style’ in Petitions to the English Crown, <i>c</i>.1350–1405

Dodd, Gwilym

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“…The momentum for this special issue comes from the growing interdisciplinary interest in petitions and petitioning in a variety of historical and contemporary settings (e.g., Almbjär 2016Almbjär , 2019; Ben-Bassat 2013; Bowie and Munck 2018; De and Travers 2019;de Costa 2006;Dodd 2014;Houston 2014;Krotoszynski 2012;McKinley 2016McKinley , 2018Whiting 2015). 1 As well as this growing literature, developments since the publication of the classic special issue of the International Review of Social History, Petitions in Social History (Voss 2001), provide a strong intellectual rationale for a new collection of essays.…”

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Introduction: The Transformation of Petitioning in the Long Nineteenth Century (1780–1914)

Miller¹

2019

Soc. sci. hist.

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This introductory essay, firstly, offers a comparative, historical perspective on the transformation of petitioning into a vehicle for mass popular politics across North America and Western Europe during the “long” nineteenth century (1780–1914). While petitions were well established as an instrument of state in many early modern states, from the late eighteenth century a new type of mass, public, collective petitioning, based on established or invoked rights, emerged on an unprecedented scale in many countries. Mass petitioning underpinned the nascent repertoires of collective action pioneered by social movements. At the same time, the reception of petitions was institutionalized by political authorities, particularly legislatures elected under limited suffrage, as a potential source of legitimation. Secondly, the introduction suggests why people petitioned, and continued to petition, when their campaigns were often unsuccessful in achieving immediate results. The answer lies in the manifold advantages of petitioning in enabling political organization, mobilization, identity formation, citizenship, political change, and the forming of networks with elite political actors. By shaping an emerging field examining petitioning and petitions, raising awareness of petitions as sources and the methodologies to exploit them, and addressing broad questions of interest to historians and social scientists, this special issue hopes to stimulate further research and contribute to a rich dialogue in the years to come.

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Introduction: The Transformation of Petitioning in the Long Nineteenth Century (1780–1914)

Miller¹

2019

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Women’s Issues in Parliament: Rape

Ormrod

2020

Women and Parliament in Later Medieval England

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The Clash of Divergent Political Strategies, Moral Categories and Literary Conventions in the Early Fifteenth Century Poetry: Mum and the Sothsegger as a Reflection of the Tensions Within the Crisis-Ridden Late Medieval Society

Bukowska

2021

Second Language Learning and Teaching

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Kingship, Parliament and the Court: the Emergence of ‘High Style’ in Petitions to the English Crown, c.1350–1405

Abstract: By the end of the fourteenth century, the address clauses of most petitions contained two key elements which are central to Brown and Levison's theory of politeness, that is to say positive 'face' (praise) and negative 'face' (self-deprecation).

Cited by 34 publications

References 7 publications

Introduction: The Transformation of Petitioning in the Long Nineteenth Century (1780–1914)

Introduction: The Transformation of Petitioning in the Long Nineteenth Century (1780–1914)

Women’s Issues in Parliament: Rape

The Clash of Divergent Political Strategies, Moral Categories and Literary Conventions in the Early Fifteenth Century Poetry: Mum and the Sothsegger as a Reflection of the Tensions Within the Crisis-Ridden Late Medieval Society

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