Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-276) and index.
Contents:
Parliament and voice in the thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries -- Parliament, criticism, and complaint in the later fourteenth century -- Property, purchase, parliament : the estates of man in John Gower's Mirour de l'Omme and Cronica tripertita -- "Oure is the voys" : Chaucer's parliaments and the mediation of community -- Parliament, Piers Plowman and the reform of the public voice -- Petitioning for show : complaint and the parliamentary voice, 1401-1414.
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