Dr Helen Lacey

Faculty of History

University of Oxford

Lecturer in Late Medieval History

Mansfield

helen.lacey@mansfield.ox.ac.uk

Later medieval political culture, popular politics, the social context of the law, the archives of the late medieval English government.

I welcome the opportunity to work with graduates in any of these fields and am very happy to discuss possible projects with prospective applicants.

Main interests in later medieval political culture, the social context of the law, the archives of the late medieval English government.

See page on Mansfield College website

The Royal Pardon: Access to Mercy in Fourteenth Century England (Woodbridge, Boydell & Brewer Press, 2009)

Pioneering investigation of the royal pardon, at a time of major change in the system of English justice, showing the important part it continued to play.

The letter of pardon was a document familiar to the king's subjects in the middle ages; imbued with symbolic resonance as the judgement of the monarch, it also served a practical purpose, offering a last hope of reprieve from the death sentence or life as an outlaw.

Dr Helen Lacey

Featured Publication

The Royal Pardon: Access to Mercy in Fourteenth Century England (Woodbridge, Boydell & Brewer Press, 2009)

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