Elizabeth Allen

Uncertain Refuge

Sanctuary in the Literature of Medieval England

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"An examination of sanctuary seeking in the literature of medieval England between the twelfth and the seventeenth centuries"--

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Oktober 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 152mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 567g
• ISBN-13: 9780812253443
• ISBN-10: 0812253442
• Artikelnr.: 61118178

Autorenporträt

Elizabeth Allen

Inhaltsangabe

Note on Translation
Introduction. Medieval Sanctuary: Legal History and Symbolic Action 1
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