Pardon Letters in the Burgundian Low Countries
by
Peter Arnade, Walter Prevenier
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2015
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...