Peacey, Jason and Waddell, Brodie (Eds).
(2024)
The Power of Petitioning in Early Modern Britain.
UCL Press: London, UK.
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Abstract
The ‘humble petition’ was ubiquitous in early modern society and featured prominently in crucial moments such as the outbreak of the civil wars and in everyday local negotiations about taxation, welfare and litigation. People at all levels of society – from noblemen to paupers – used petitions to make their voices heard and these are valuable sources for mapping the structures of authority and agency that framed early modern society. The Power of Petitioning in Early Modern Britain offers a holistic study of this crucial topic in early modern British history. The contributors survey a vast range of sources, showing the myriad ways people petitioned the authorities from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries. They cross the jurisdictional, sub-disciplinary and chronological boundaries that have otherwise constrained the current scholarly literature on petitioning and popular political engagement. Teasing out broad conclusions from innumerable smaller interventions in public life, they not only address the aims, attitudes and strategies of those involved, but also assesses the significance of the processes they used. This volume makes it possible to rethink the power of petitioning and to re-evaluate broad trends regarding political culture, institutional change and state formation.
| Type: | Book |
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| Title: | The Power of Petitioning in Early Modern Britain |
| ISBN-13: | 9781800085503 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781800085503 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Collection © Editors, 2024 Text © Contributors, 2024 Images © Contributors and copyright holders named in captions, 2024 This book is published under a Creative Commons Attribution- Non- Commercial 4.0 International licence (CC BY- NC 4.0), https://creativecomm ons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ . This licence allows you to share and adapt the work for non- commercial use providing attribution is made to the author and publisher (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work) and any changes are indicated. Attribution should include the following information: Waddell, B. and Peacey, J. (eds) 2024. The Power of Petitioning in Early Modern Britain. London: UCL Press. https://doi.org/10.14324/111.978180 0085 503 Further details about Creative Commons licences are available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/ |
| Keywords: | politics, revolution, litigation, welfare, crime, state formation, lobbying, supplication, complaint, authorship |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Dept of History |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10191090 |
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