Seeking Sanctuary C

by Shannon McSheffrey

Seeking Sanctuary explores a curious aspect of premodern English law: the right of felons to shelter in a church or ecclesiastical precinct, remaining safe from arrest and trial in the king's courts. This is the first volume in more than a century to examine sanctuary in England in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Looking anew at this subject challenges the prevailing assumptions in the scholarship that this 'medieval' practice had become outmoded...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198798148
• ISBN13: 9780198798149
• Release Date: September 2017
• Publisher: Academic
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.3"