The Popular Classes and Royal Justice in Medieval England: Evidence from the Derbyshire Eyre of 1330-1331
Resumen Este artículo investiga el grado en que las cortes reales de derecho consuetudinario de Inglaterra fueron utilizadas por las masas (campesinos, artesanos, asalariados) para entablar demandas de escaso valor. Sostiene que esta cuestión es importante para comprender el marco institucional que sustentó el desarrollo de la economía de mercado en Inglaterra, así com para investigar las afirmaciones sobre la formación del Estado en este período. Mediante el estudio de un caso concreto de una sesión provincial de justicia real (la sesión de Derbyshire de 1330-31), el artículo presenta pruebas cuantitativas sobre la condición social y el objeto de los asuntos de deudas y usurpación de propiedad que se juzgaban ante los jueces del rey. Se argumenta que la evidencia sobre Derbyshire muestra que había límites al alcance social de los tribunales de derecho consuetudinario. Si queremos comprender el marco de la justicia civil, debemos aspirar a un análisis más exhaustivo de las múltiples jurisdicciones de la Inglaterra medieval (real, comunitaria, urbana, señorial y eclesiástica).
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Beckerman, John S. Customary Law in English Manorial Courts in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries. London: University of London, 1972 [Ph.D. thesis unpublished].
Boatwright, Lesley. The Buckinghamshire Eyre of 1286. Aylesbury: Buckinghamshire Record Society, 34, 2006.
Bolland, William Craddock. Select bills in Eyre A.D. 1292-1333. London: Selden Society, 30, 1914.
Briggs, Chris. Credit and Village Society in Fourteenth-Century England. Oxford: British Academy, 2009. https://doi.org/10.5871/bacad/9780197264416.001.0001
Briggs, Chris. «Seigniorial Control of Villagers’ Litigation Beyond the Manor in the Later Middle Ages». Historical Research 81 (2008): 399-422. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2281.2008.00463.x
Briggs, Chris. «Women, Legal Status and Market Participation in Late Medieval England: Some Thoughts on Recent Research». Estudios Medievales 35 (2023): 228-48.
Broadberry, Stephen et al. British Economic Growth 1270-1870. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107707603
Burt, Caroline. «The Demise of the General Eyre in the Reign of Edward I». English Historical Review 120 (2005): 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cei001
Burt, Caroline and Richard Partington. Arise, England. Six Kings and the Making of the English State. London: Faber, 2024.
Calendar of the Close Rolls Preserved in the Public Record Office. Edward III. A.D. 1330-1333. London: HMSO, 1898.
Calendar of the Patent Rolls Preserved in the Public Record Office. Edward III. A.D. 1327-1330. London: HMSO, 1891.
Cam, Helen Maud. «The General Eyres of 1329-30». English Historical Review 39 (1924): 241-52. https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/XXXIX.CLIV.241
Campbell, Bruce M. S. «The Agrarian Problem in the Early Fourteenth Century». Past & Present 188 (2005): 3-70. https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gti017
Campbell, Bruce M. S. and Lorraine Barry. «The Population Geography of Great Britain c.1290: A Provisional Reconstruction». In Population, Welfare and Economic Change in Britain 1290-1834, Chris Briggs, P. M. Kitson and S.J. Thompson (eds.), 43-78. Woodbridge: Boydell, 2014. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781782043935.003
Carpenter, David. The Struggle for Mastery: Britain 1066-1284. London: Allen Lane, 2003.
Chen, Ding and Simon Deakin. «On Heaven’s Lathe: State, Rule of Law, and Economic Development». Law and Development Review 8 (2015): 123-45. https://doi.org/10.1515/ldr-2014-0031
Cox, J. Charles. «Derbyshire in 1327-8: Being a Lay Subsidy Roll». Derbyshire Archaeological Journal 30 (1908): 23-96.
Crook, David. «The Later Eyres». English Historical Review 97 (1982): 241-68. https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/XCVII.CCCLXXXIII.241
Crook, David. Records of the general eyre. London: HMSO, 1982.
Deakin, Simon et al. «Legal Institutionalism: Capitalism and the Constitutive Role of Law». Journal of Comparative Economics 45 (2017): 188-200. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jce.2016.04.005
Farmer, David L. «Prices and Wages». In The Agrarian History of England and Wales, I: 1052-1350, Herbert E. Hallam (ed.), 715-817. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988.
Glasscock, R. E. The Lay Subsidy of 1334. Oxford: British Academy, 1975.
Harding, Alan. The Law Courts of Medieval England. London: Allen and Unwin, 1973.
Harding, Alan. «Plaints and Bills in the History of English Law, Mainly in the Period 1250-1350». In Legal History Studies 1972, Daffyd Jenkins (ed.), 65-86. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1975.
Hopkinson, Aileen M. The Rolls of the 1281 Derbyshire eyre. Chesterfield: Derbyshire Record Society, 27, 2000.
Maitland, Frederick William, Leveson William Vernon Harcourt and William Craddock Bolland. Year Books of Edward II Vols. V, VII and VIII. The eyre of Kent 6 & 7 Edward II A.D. 1313-1314. London: Selden Society, 24, 27, 29, 3 vols., 1910-13.
Musson, Anthony and W. Mark Ormrod. The Evolution of English Justice. Law, Politics and Society in the Fourteenth Century. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1999. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-27004-0
Ogilvie, Sheilagh and A. W. Carus. «Institutions and Economic Growth in Historical Perspective». In Handbook of Economic Growth, Vol. 2a, Steven Durlauf and Philippe Aghion (eds.), 403-513. Burlington: Elsevier Science, 2014. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-444-53538-2.00008-3
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Page, William. The Victoria History of the County of Derby: Volume 2. London: Constable, 1907.
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Palmer, Robert C. English Law in the Age of the Black Death, 1348-1381. A Transformation of Governance and Law. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1993.
Prestwich, Michael. Plantagenet England 1225-1360. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2005. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198228448.001.0001
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Rogers, Ralph V. «Law Reporting and the Multiplication of Law Reports in the Fourteenth Century». English Historical Review 66 (1951): 481-506. https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/LXVI.CCLXI.481
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Seipp, David J. «Legal Services for the Poor in the Early Common Law». In Law and Society in Late Medieval England and Ireland. Essays in honour of Paul Brand, Travis Baker (ed.), 255-73. London and New York: Routledge, 2018. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315591520-13
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Willard, James F. Parliamentary Taxes on Personal Property, 1290 to 1334: A Study in Mediaeval English Financial Administration. Cambridge, Mass.: Mediaeval Academy of America, 1934.
Wood, Andy. The Politics of Social Conflict: The Peak Country, 1520-1770. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511496134
Briggs, C. (2025). The Popular Classes and Royal Justice in Medieval England: Evidence from the Derbyshire Eyre of 1330-1331. Studia Historica. Historia Medieval, 43(1), 11–34. https://doi.org/10.14201/shhme.31922
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