{"id":822,"date":"2020-04-19T15:52:27","date_gmt":"2020-04-19T15:52:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archive.lauramorreale.com\/middleagesforeducators\/?p=822"},"modified":"2020-04-27T14:34:41","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T14:34:41","slug":"late-medieval-pardon-letters-by-quentin-verreycken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/archive.lauramorreale.com\/middleagesforeducators\/videos\/late-medieval-pardon-letters-by-quentin-verreycken\/","title":{"rendered":"Late Medieval Pardon Letters, by Quentin Verreycken"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Verreycken Pardon Letters\" width=\"580\" height=\"326\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QG_hMlfqBGY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usaintlouis.be\/sl\/4008609.html\">Quentin Verreycken Saint-Louis University, Brussels<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>*Warning:* This video contains some graphic and disturbing descriptions which may not be suitable for all viewers.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Primary Source Document<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A translation of the <a href=\"https:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/book\/57708\">remission letter granted to Antonie van Claerhout <\/a>in 1455 can be found in Peter Arnade and Walter Prevenier, <em>Honor, Vengeance, and Social Trouble. Pardon Letters in the Burgundian Low Countries<\/em>, Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 2015, p. 116\u201318.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Discussion questions<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1. Read a pardon letter or a petition for pardon. What do you notice about the rhetorical techniques and legal arguments used by the petitioner to support their demand for pardon?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2. How is violence described in pardon letters? What does that tell us about the medieval attitudes to violence?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3. Why could it be in the interest of a king or a prince to grant pardons? Does the late medieval use of pardoning threaten to deteriorate public order?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>4. To what extent was royal pardon connected to the Christian notions of justice and mercy? Check the related vocabulary used in a pardon letter to elaborate on this question.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Online Resources<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.himanis.org\/\">Himanis Project<\/a> website, transcribing and indexing some of the French <em>Tr\u00e9sor des chartes<\/em> that recorded remission letters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <em>Calendars of the patent rolls preserved in the Public record office<\/em>, available on the <a href=\"https:\/\/catalog.hathitrust.org\/Record\/009029274\"><em>HathiTrust<\/em><\/a> website, describe royal pardons granted by the English Crown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Petitions for pardon submitted to the king of England are accessible on The National Archives website, <a href=\"https:\/\/discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk\/details\/r\/C13526\">Special Collection: Ancient Petitions<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Modern editions of French remission letters can be found in the online collections of the <a href=\"http:\/\/corpus.enc.sorbonne.fr\/corpus\/actesroyauxdupoitou\/\"><em>Actes royaux du Poitou (1302-1464)<\/em><\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.openedition.org\/criminocorpus\/3572?lang=it\"><em>Lettres de pardon de la chancellerie de Bretagne<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Further Reading<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Davis, Natalie Zemon, <em>Fiction in the Archives. Pardon Tales and their Tellers in Sixteenth-Century France<\/em>, Cambridge, Polity Press, 1987.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gauvard, Claude, <em>\u00ab\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/books.openedition.org\/psorbonne\/35658?lang=en\"><em>De grace especial\u00a0\u00bb. Crime, \u00c9tat et soci\u00e9t\u00e9 en France \u00e0 la fin du Moyen \u00c2ge<\/em>, <\/a>2 vols., Paris, Publications de la Sorbonne, 1991.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lacey, Helen, <em>The Royal Pardon: Access to Mercy in Fourteenth-Century England<\/em>, York, York Medieval Press, 2009.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Skoda, Hannah, <em>Medieval Violence: Physical Brutality in Northern France, 1270\u20131330<\/em>, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Verreycken, Quentin, \u201c\u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.16995\/olh.389\">En nous humblement requerant\u2019: Crime Narrations and Rhetorical Strategies in Late Medieval Pardon Letters,<\/a>\u201d <em>Open Library of Humanities<\/em>, 5 (1): 62, 2019, p. 1\u201331. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Verreycken, Quentin, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1111\/hic3.12575\">The Power to Pardon in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe: New Perspectives in the History of Crime and Criminal Justice,<\/a>\u201d <em>History Compass<\/em>, 2019, e12575.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>To Cite this Page<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Verreycken, Quentin. \u201cLate Medieval Pardon Letters,\u201d&nbsp;<em>Middle Ages for Educators<\/em>, April 19, 2020. 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