Would you like to learn more about pardon letters? We recommend you have a look at the following books and articles:
- Peter Arnade and Walter Prevenier, Honor, vengeance, and social trouble. Pardon letters in the Burgundian Low Countries, Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 2015.
- Natalie Zemon Davis, Fiction in the archives. Pardon tales and their tellers in sixteenth-century France, Stanford, 1987.
- Claude Gauvard, « De grace especial ». Crime, État et société en France à la fin du Moyen Âge, Paris, Publications de la Sorbonne, 1991. Available in open access: https://books.openedition.org/psorbonne/35658?lang=fr
- Gert Gielis, «Het PARDONS-project en de ontsluiting van Brabantse gratiebrieven », Eigen Schoon en de Brabander, 106:1, 2023, p.93-112.
- Quentin Verreycken, « “En nous humblement requerant”: Crime narrations and rhetorical strategies in late medieval pardon letters », Open Library of Humanities, 5/1: 62, 2019, p. 1‑31. Available in open access: https://olh.openlibhums.org/article/id/4599/
- Marjan Vrolijk, Recht door gratie. Gratie bij doodslagen en andere delicten in Vlaanderen, Holland en Zeeland (1531-1567), Hilversum, Verloren, 2004.
- Luke Giraudet, “Witnesses, Witnessing and the Crafting of Pardon Letters: The Case of the Habsburg Privy Council of the Spanish Netherlands (1540–1633).” “Voor Ons Sijn Verscheenen” 2024: (Oog)Getuigen En Hun Verklaringen in de Vroegmoderne Periode, edited by Dries Raeymaekers and Gerrit Verhoeven, Leuven University Press, 2024, pp. 41–66. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/jj.16148263.5.