Gwilym Dodd
Biographic Data
| ID | 3766228 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gwilym Dodd |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gwilym |
| FAMILY NAME | Dodd |
| SIGNATURE | DODD G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Nottingham |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4326-2724 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Town and Crown: Self-Representation and Signification in Fourteenth-Century England
By the start of the fourteenth century the petition was established as one of the most important modes of communication between towns and cities on the one hand, and the English crown on the other. Petitions underscored the need of urban communities to obtain the intervention of royal government in their affairs. This discussion investigates the language of these supplications, focusing specifically on the choice of vocabulary used to describe th…
Parliament, politics and protocol: The Modus tenendi parliamentum and the settlement of the realm under Edward II
The Modus tenendi parliamentum has long perplexed scholars. For over a century they have battled to make sense of its 26 chapters, which purport to describe the centuries-old traditions, functions and processes of the English parliament. A number of hypotheses have emerged to explain its compilation, most notably that it was a Lancastrian political manifesto, a legal treatise or an administrator’s programme for reform. In this discussion I argue …
William Stubbs, Parliament and the Medieval English Constitution
The name of William Stubbs will forever be associated with the birth of modern scholarship on the late medieval English parliament. At the core of his Constitutional History , a three‐volume work published in the 1870s, is a brilliant synthesis of the development of the early parliament. Since its publication, however, Stubbs's work has generated varied reactions, as scholars have positioned themselves at different points on a sliding scale of pr…
Henry Knighton, the Commons and the crisis of governance in the 1380s
This discussion provides the first in-depth investigation into the meaning and significance of a quite exceptional petition presented by the parliamentary Commons in the reign of Richard II. The petition survives as a unique copy in the chronicle of Henry Knighton: it was not recorded on the parliament roll. Knighton inserted the petition into his more general account of the Merciless Parliament of 1388. In this discussion I argue that the petiti…
County and Community in Medieval England
The ‘county community’ is something of a hot potato amongst late medieval political historians. Since the publication of an influential article by Christine Carpenter in 1994, in which she condemned the county community as anachronistic and conceptually flawed, research on the political structures of late medieval England has mostly avoided the term and the idea. In other fields, the methodological challenges and conceptual complexities underpinn…
Petitions and Strategies of Persuasion in the Middle Ages: The English Crown and the Church, c.1200-c.1550
Law, Legislation, and Consent in the Plantagenet Empire: Wales and Ireland, 1272–1461
In recent years, scholars have begun to look afresh at the dynamics of English “imperial” power in the late medieval period, but the extent to which the English dominions were subject to English law and legislation––and the questions of why and how these influences varied between the regions and over an extended period of time––have been considered less systematically and rarely comparatively. With its focus on Wales and Ireland, this article exp…
Historians of the Late Medieval English Parliament
What accounts for the emergence of the medieval parliament? What were its main functions? Whose interests did parliament serve and how powerful were the Commons? These are straightforward questions, but historians have been debating the answers for well over a hundred years, since Archbishop William Stubbs published his Constitutional History in 1875. This discussion surveys the main contributions to this discussion, tracing the rise and fall, an…
Multiple-clause petitions to the English parliament in the later Middle Ages: Instruments of pragmatism or persuasion
This discussion considers how and why some parliamentary private petitions were written as lists of separate requests or complaints between the late thirteenth and mid-fifteenth centuries. These petitions constitute a small, but visually distinctive, sub-group of The National Archives series SC 8 (‘Ancient Petitions’). Although the practicalities of writing complicated requests were often a key factor, the article argues that other more subtle co…
Reason, Conscience and Equity: Bishops as the King's Judges in Later Medieval England
It has long been recognized that many late medieval bishops were heavily involved in secular government. Scholars have tended to characterize these activities in fairly general terms, labelling those who chose to serve the crown as ‘administrators’, ‘bureaucrats’ or ‘civil servants’. In fact, they are better described as king's judges, for a large part of what bishops did in government was dispensing justice in the king's name. The first part of …
Kingship, Parliament and the Court: The Emergence of 'High Style' in Petitions to the English Crown, c.1350-1405
In the second half of the fourteenth century, petitioners hoping to secure royal grace began addressing the king in an increasingly obsequious and ostentatious manner. A strong historiographical tradition is now established which regards this development in very narrow terms, as part of Richard II's attempt to create a new type of authoritarian kingship in the late 1390s. Close analysis of the incidence of these new language forms shows, however,…
Trilingualism in the Medieval English Bureaucracy: The Use—and Disuse—of Languages in the Fifteenth-Century Privy Seal Office
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Was Thomas Favent a political pamphleteer? Faction and politics in later fourteenth-century London
Thomas Favent's Historia has long been recognised as an important source for the turbulent middle years of Richard II's reign, in particular for its praise of the actions of the Lords Appellant in the Merciless Parliament of 1388. But why did Favent write the Historia and for whom was it written? In recent years the Historia has for the first time been subjected to detailed scrutiny and a case has made for regarding it as a political pamphlet wri…
The Rise of English, the Decline of French: Supplications to the English Crown, c. 1420–1450
It is now some thirty years since the researches of John H. Fisher and Malcolm Richardson highlighted the importance of the records of the central government in the process of English-language “vernacularization” in early-fifteenth-century England. Their publication of the Anthology of Chancery English provided irrefutable evidence of a linguistic transition that overtook some key types of government records, which began to be drafted in English …
Changing Perspectives: Parliament, Poetry and the ‘Civil Service’ under Richard II and Henry IV
England and Scotland in the Fourteenth Century: New Perspectives
A parliament full of rats? Piers Plowman and the Good Parliament of 1376
Journal Article A parliament full of rats? Piers Plowman and the Good Parliament of 1376 Get access Gwilym Dodd Gwilym Dodd University of Nottingham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Historical Research, Volume 79, Issue 203, February 2006, Pages 21–49, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2281.2005.00237.x Published: 27 July 2005
Small Group Teaching: Perceptions and Problems
Seminars and tutorials are a standard part of delivering teaching in politics departments. However, the range of methods used in such small groups is wide and varied as are the perceptions of the purpose of small group teaching (SGT). On the basis of interviews with students and lecturers, we highlight important differences between what lecturers hope to achieve and what students expect to learn in these sessions. We aim to provide a better under…
The Calais Staple and the Parliament of May 1382
1Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York
Expectations of the Law in the Middle Ages
The Lords, Taxation and the Community of Parliament in the 1370s and Early 1380s
Small Group Teaching: Perceptions and Problems
Seminars and tutorials are a standard part of delivering teaching in politics departments. However, the range of methods used in such small groups is wide and varied as are the perceptions of the purpose of small group teaching (SGT). On the basis of interviews with students and lecturers, we highlight important differences between what lecturers hope to achieve and what students expect to learn in these sessions. We aim to provide a better under…
County and Community in Medieval England
The ‘county community’ is something of a hot potato amongst late medieval political historians. Since the publication of an influential article by Christine Carpenter in 1994, in which she condemned the county community as anachronistic and conceptually flawed, research on the political structures of late medieval England has mostly avoided the term and the idea. In other fields, the methodological challenges and conceptual complexities underpinn…
Reason, Conscience and Equity: Bishops as the King's Judges in Later Medieval England
It has long been recognized that many late medieval bishops were heavily involved in secular government. Scholars have tended to characterize these activities in fairly general terms, labelling those who chose to serve the crown as ‘administrators’, ‘bureaucrats’ or ‘civil servants’. In fact, they are better described as king's judges, for a large part of what bishops did in government was dispensing justice in the king's name. The first part of …
Kingship, Parliament and the Court: The Emergence of 'High Style' in Petitions to the English Crown, c.1350-1405
In the second half of the fourteenth century, petitioners hoping to secure royal grace began addressing the king in an increasingly obsequious and ostentatious manner. A strong historiographical tradition is now established which regards this development in very narrow terms, as part of Richard II's attempt to create a new type of authoritarian kingship in the late 1390s. Close analysis of the incidence of these new language forms shows, however,…
The Rise of English, the Decline of French: Supplications to the English Crown, c. 1420–1450
It is now some thirty years since the researches of John H. Fisher and Malcolm Richardson highlighted the importance of the records of the central government in the process of English-language “vernacularization” in early-fifteenth-century England. Their publication of the Anthology of Chancery English provided irrefutable evidence of a linguistic transition that overtook some key types of government records, which began to be drafted in English …
Multiple-clause petitions to the English parliament in the later Middle Ages: Instruments of pragmatism or persuasion
This discussion considers how and why some parliamentary private petitions were written as lists of separate requests or complaints between the late thirteenth and mid-fifteenth centuries. These petitions constitute a small, but visually distinctive, sub-group of The National Archives series SC 8 (‘Ancient Petitions’). Although the practicalities of writing complicated requests were often a key factor, the article argues that other more subtle co…
Was Thomas Favent a political pamphleteer? Faction and politics in later fourteenth-century London
Thomas Favent's Historia has long been recognised as an important source for the turbulent middle years of Richard II's reign, in particular for its praise of the actions of the Lords Appellant in the Merciless Parliament of 1388. But why did Favent write the Historia and for whom was it written? In recent years the Historia has for the first time been subjected to detailed scrutiny and a case has made for regarding it as a political pamphlet wri…
A parliament full of rats? Piers Plowman and the Good Parliament of 1376
Journal Article A parliament full of rats? Piers Plowman and the Good Parliament of 1376 Get access Gwilym Dodd Gwilym Dodd University of Nottingham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Historical Research, Volume 79, Issue 203, February 2006, Pages 21–49, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2281.2005.00237.x Published: 27 July 2005
Expectations of the Law in the Middle Ages
The Lords, Taxation and the Community of Parliament in the 1370s and Early 1380s
The Calais Staple and the Parliament of May 1382
1Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York
Small Group Teaching: Perceptions and Problems
Seminars and tutorials are a standard part of delivering teaching in politics departments. However, the range of methods used in such small groups is wide and varied as are the perceptions of the purpose of small group teaching (SGT). On the basis of interviews with students and lecturers, we highlight important differences between what lecturers hope to achieve and what students expect to learn in these sessions. We aim to provide a better under…
A parliament full of rats? Piers Plowman and the Good Parliament of 1376
Journal Article A parliament full of rats? Piers Plowman and the Good Parliament of 1376 Get access Gwilym Dodd Gwilym Dodd University of Nottingham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Historical Research, Volume 79, Issue 203, February 2006, Pages 21–49, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2281.2005.00237.x Published: 27 July 2005
England and Scotland in the Fourteenth Century: New Perspectives
Changing Perspectives: Parliament, Poetry and the ‘Civil Service’ under Richard II and Henry IV
Was Thomas Favent a political pamphleteer? Faction and politics in later fourteenth-century London
Thomas Favent's Historia has long been recognised as an important source for the turbulent middle years of Richard II's reign, in particular for its praise of the actions of the Lords Appellant in the Merciless Parliament of 1388. But why did Favent write the Historia and for whom was it written? In recent years the Historia has for the first time been subjected to detailed scrutiny and a case has made for regarding it as a political pamphlet wri…
The Rise of English, the Decline of French: Supplications to the English Crown, c. 1420–1450
It is now some thirty years since the researches of John H. Fisher and Malcolm Richardson highlighted the importance of the records of the central government in the process of English-language “vernacularization” in early-fifteenth-century England. Their publication of the Anthology of Chancery English provided irrefutable evidence of a linguistic transition that overtook some key types of government records, which began to be drafted in English …
Trilingualism in the Medieval English Bureaucracy: The Use—and Disuse—of Languages in the Fifteenth-Century Privy Seal Office
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Historians of the Late Medieval English Parliament
What accounts for the emergence of the medieval parliament? What were its main functions? Whose interests did parliament serve and how powerful were the Commons? These are straightforward questions, but historians have been debating the answers for well over a hundred years, since Archbishop William Stubbs published his Constitutional History in 1875. This discussion surveys the main contributions to this discussion, tracing the rise and fall, an…
Multiple-clause petitions to the English parliament in the later Middle Ages: Instruments of pragmatism or persuasion
This discussion considers how and why some parliamentary private petitions were written as lists of separate requests or complaints between the late thirteenth and mid-fifteenth centuries. These petitions constitute a small, but visually distinctive, sub-group of The National Archives series SC 8 (‘Ancient Petitions’). Although the practicalities of writing complicated requests were often a key factor, the article argues that other more subtle co…
Reason, Conscience and Equity: Bishops as the King's Judges in Later Medieval England
It has long been recognized that many late medieval bishops were heavily involved in secular government. Scholars have tended to characterize these activities in fairly general terms, labelling those who chose to serve the crown as ‘administrators’, ‘bureaucrats’ or ‘civil servants’. In fact, they are better described as king's judges, for a large part of what bishops did in government was dispensing justice in the king's name. The first part of …
Kingship, Parliament and the Court: The Emergence of 'High Style' in Petitions to the English Crown, c.1350-1405
In the second half of the fourteenth century, petitioners hoping to secure royal grace began addressing the king in an increasingly obsequious and ostentatious manner. A strong historiographical tradition is now established which regards this development in very narrow terms, as part of Richard II's attempt to create a new type of authoritarian kingship in the late 1390s. Close analysis of the incidence of these new language forms shows, however,…
Law, Legislation, and Consent in the Plantagenet Empire: Wales and Ireland, 1272–1461
In recent years, scholars have begun to look afresh at the dynamics of English “imperial” power in the late medieval period, but the extent to which the English dominions were subject to English law and legislation––and the questions of why and how these influences varied between the regions and over an extended period of time––have been considered less systematically and rarely comparatively. With its focus on Wales and Ireland, this article exp…
Petitions and Strategies of Persuasion in the Middle Ages: The English Crown and the Church, c.1200-c.1550
County and Community in Medieval England
The ‘county community’ is something of a hot potato amongst late medieval political historians. Since the publication of an influential article by Christine Carpenter in 1994, in which she condemned the county community as anachronistic and conceptually flawed, research on the political structures of late medieval England has mostly avoided the term and the idea. In other fields, the methodological challenges and conceptual complexities underpinn…
William Stubbs, Parliament and the Medieval English Constitution
The name of William Stubbs will forever be associated with the birth of modern scholarship on the late medieval English parliament. At the core of his Constitutional History , a three‐volume work published in the 1870s, is a brilliant synthesis of the development of the early parliament. Since its publication, however, Stubbs's work has generated varied reactions, as scholars have positioned themselves at different points on a sliding scale of pr…
Henry Knighton, the Commons and the crisis of governance in the 1380s
This discussion provides the first in-depth investigation into the meaning and significance of a quite exceptional petition presented by the parliamentary Commons in the reign of Richard II. The petition survives as a unique copy in the chronicle of Henry Knighton: it was not recorded on the parliament roll. Knighton inserted the petition into his more general account of the Merciless Parliament of 1388. In this discussion I argue that the petiti…
Parliament, politics and protocol: The Modus tenendi parliamentum and the settlement of the realm under Edward II
The Modus tenendi parliamentum has long perplexed scholars. For over a century they have battled to make sense of its 26 chapters, which purport to describe the centuries-old traditions, functions and processes of the English parliament. A number of hypotheses have emerged to explain its compilation, most notably that it was a Lancastrian political manifesto, a legal treatise or an administrator’s programme for reform. In this discussion I argue …
Town and Crown: Self-Representation and Signification in Fourteenth-Century England
By the start of the fourteenth century the petition was established as one of the most important modes of communication between towns and cities on the one hand, and the English crown on the other. Petitions underscored the need of urban communities to obtain the intervention of royal government in their affairs. This discussion investigates the language of these supplications, focusing specifically on the choice of vocabulary used to describe th…
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