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Uncertain Refuge - Sanctuary in the Literature of Medieval England (Hardcover)
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Uncertain Refuge - Sanctuary in the Literature of Medieval England (Hardcover)
Series: The Middle Ages Series
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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 under both canon and common
law, and up to five hundred people sought sanctuary every year.
What they found, however, was not so much a static refuge as a
temporary respite from further action—confession and exile—or
from further violence—jurisdictional conflict, harrying or
starvation, a breaching of the sanctuary. While sanctuary has
usually been analyzed as part of legal history, in Uncertain Refuge
Elizabeth Allen explores the symbolic consequences of sanctuary
seeking in English literary works—miracle collections,
chronicles, romances, and drama. She ponders the miracle of a
stag's escape from the hunt into a churchyard as well as the
account of a fallen political favorite who gains a sort of charisma
as he takes sanctuary three times in succession; the figure of Sir
Gawain, seeking refuge in a stark land far from the court and Robin
Hood, hiding in his local forest refuge among his Merry Men. Her
consideration of medieval sanctuary extends to its resonances in a
seventeenth-century play about the early Tudor usurper Perkin
Warbeck and even into modern America, with the case of a breach of
sanctuary in southwest Georgia in 1963, when sheriffs took over a
voter registration meeting in a local church. Uncertain Refuge
illuminates a fantasy of protection and its impermanence that
animated late medieval literary culture, and one that remains
poignantly alive, if no longer written into law, in today's
troubled political world.
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Imprint: |
University of PennsylvaniaPress
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
The Middle Ages Series |
Release date: |
October 2021 |
First published: |
2022 |
Authors: |
Elizabeth Allen
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 27mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
376 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-8122-5344-3 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
0-8122-5344-2 |
Barcode: |
9780812253443 |
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