Honor, Vengeance, and Social Trouble

by Walter Prevenier, Peter J. Arnade, Peter Arnade

Book Overview

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 Honor,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801453461
• ISBN13: 9780801453465
• Release Date: June 2015
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.3"