Uncertain refuge: sanctuary in the literature of medieval England
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| Abstract: | 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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| spelling | Allen, Elizabeth 1955- Verfasser (DE-588)1146785615 aut Uncertain refuge sanctuary in the literature of medieval England Elizabeth Allen Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Press [2021] © 2022 1 Online-Ressource (311 Seiten) Illustrationen txt rdacontent c rdamedia cr rdacarrier The Middle Ages series 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 LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval bisacsh Asylum, Right of England History English literature Early modern, 1500-1700 History and criticism English literature Middle English, 1100-1500 History and criticism Fugitives from justice in literature Law and literature England History Law, Medieval, in literature Refuge in literature Sacred space in literature Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe 978-0-8122-5344-3 https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812298079 Verlag URL des Erstveröffentlichers Volltext |
| spellingShingle | Allen, Elizabeth 1955- Uncertain refuge sanctuary in the literature of medieval England LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval bisacsh Asylum, Right of England History English literature Early modern, 1500-1700 History and criticism English literature Middle English, 1100-1500 History and criticism Fugitives from justice in literature Law and literature England History Law, Medieval, in literature Refuge in literature Sacred space in literature |
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