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By Björn Weiler, Janet Burton, Phillipp Schofield

The 13th century introduced the British Isles into ever nearer touch with each other, and with medieval Europe as an entire. This foreign size kinds a dominant topic of this assortment: it positive factors essays on England's family members with the papal court docket; the adoption of ecu cultural norms in Scotland; Welsh society and crusading; English landholding in eire; and dealings among the kings of britain and Navarre. different papers, on ritual crucifixion, options of place of work and ethcis, and the English royal itinerary, express that the 13th century used to be additionally a interval of profound political and cultural switch, witnessing the transformation of felony and financial buildings [represented right here through case experiences of noblewomen and their burial customs; and a chronic inheritance dispute in Laxton]. This quantity testifies to the continued power and [with members from 3 continents and 6 international locations] foreign nature of scholarship on medieval Britain; and strikes past the Channel to make an enormous contribution to the heritage of medieval Europes.

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Enquiries into the behaviour of royal officers were regularly set up, and encouraged the population to voice their discontent. , 268–78, for the gravamina. These are analysed in Robert C. Stacey, ‘Crusades, Crusaders, and the Baronial gravamina of 1263–1264’, TCE, iii, 137–50. 2 On the question of the corruption of sheriffs, see for instance R. Gorski, The Fourteenth-Century Sheriff: English Local Administration in the Late Middle Ages (Woodbridge, 2003), 102ff. C. R. Maddicott, ‘Magna Carta and the Local Community 1215–1259’, Past and Present cii (1984), 25–65, at 27.

I. Webb, vol. The Communiloquium is analysed in Jenny Swanson, John of Wales: a Study of the Works and Ideas of a Thirteenth-Century Friar (Cambridge, 1989). For the influence of the Policraticus on the Communiloquium, see Walter Ullmann, ‘John of Salisbury’s Policraticus in the Later Middle Ages’, repr. in Jurisprudence in the Middle Ages. Collected Studies (London, 1980), VI, 519–545, at 524–5. The text of the French ‘ordonnance’ is edited in Ordonnances des rois de France de la troisième race, ed.

For him, pleaders (‘advocati’) are similar to the tongue of the natural body, which enunciates what is useful and necessary to the body. But they may only use their science and their eloquence for the good of the ‘res publica’ (after Cicero, De Officiis, III, 17, and Proverbs 17). Equally, they ought to avoid ornament in their clothes and pomp in their gestures. In Urbain, the pleader is told to answer questions according to the law, without uttering threats or oaths. 39 34 35 The Mirror of Justices, I, 1, 167; John of Wales, Communiloquium, I, IV, 4, fols 43v and 44r.

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