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Uncertain refuge : sanctuary in the literature of medieval England /
Medieval felons could take sanctuary from prosecution in any church, but far from static refuge, sanctuary staged dynamic action, even violence. While sanctuary has usually been analyzed as part of legal history, in Uncertain Refuge Elizabeth Allen explores the symbolic consequences of sanctuary see...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
[2021]
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| Colección: | Middle Ages series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction. Medieval Sanctuary: Legal History and Symbolic Action
- Chapter 1. The Miracle of Cuthbert's Stag
- Chapter 2. The Flight of the King's Man: Hubert de Burgh in the Chronica Majora
- Chapter 3. Breaches at Westminster and the Making of a Sanctuary King
- Chapter 4. The Dark Sanctuary of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
- Chapter 5. Robin Hood and the Limits of Sanctuary
- Chapter 6. Kingship and the Politics of Pity in the Histories of Perkin Warbeck
- Coda. Sanctuary in Southwest Georgia, 1962
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Acknowledgments.