Uncertain Refuge : : Sanctuary in the Literature of Medieval England / / Elizabeth Allen.
To seek sanctuary from persecution by entering a sacred space is an act of desperation, but also a symbolic endeavor: fugitives invoke divine presence to reach a precarious safe haven that imbues their lives with religious, social, or political significance. In medieval England, sanctuary was upheld...
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| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The Middle Ages Series
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Note on Translation
- 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