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Sanctuary and Crime rethinks the history of sanctuary protections in the Western legal tradition. Until the sixteenth century, every major medieval legal tradition afforded protections to fugitive criminals who took sanctuary in churches. Sanctuary-seeking criminals might have been required to perfo...
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Prologue -- Introduction -- PART I. The Foundations of Sanctuary Law in Late Antiquity -- 1 Authority, Intercession, and Penance -- 2 Roman Aristocratic Traditions, Imperial Penal Law, and Sanctuary -- PART II. The Emergence of Sanctuary Law in the Early Middle Ages -- 3 Reassessing Early Medieval Sanctuary Legislation -- 4 The Transmission and Reception of Sanctuary Legislation in the Early Middle Ages -- 5 Sanctuary, Blood Feud, and the Strength of Anglo-Saxon Government -- PART III. Sanctuary in Late Medieval England and the Canon Law -- 6 Sanctuary in the Century After the Norman Conquest -- 7 Sanctuary and Angevin Law Reforms -- 8 The Role of Canon Law in the Destruction of Sanctuary -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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