...Elizabeth Allen John Ford's play Perkin Warbeck uses sanctuary, which bookends the life of the titular pretender to the English throne, as a figure for the tension between justice and mercy. The play associates legal sanctuary with the medieval past, as crystallized in Thomas More's account...

...” in the precinct to the jurisdiction of the City’s guilds.56 Even the king’s commission of an inquiry in 1535 to determine the boundaries of the sanctuary asked the commission- ers “diligently [to] vieu and trye owt all and every the boundes and lymytes of the said Sanctuarye,” and to examine “the grauntes...

..., Shannon Stranger Artisans and the London Sanctuary of St. Martin le Grand in the Reign of Henry VIII  545 – 571 680  Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 43.3 / 2013 Milner, Matthew The Physics of Holy Oats: Vernacular Knowledge, Qualities, and Remedy in Fifteenth-Century England...

... the sacred veil is ineffably raised, so that she may hold the entering crowd to her chest as in a new innermost sanctuary and inviolate refuge.” 9 Veils were often donated to icons and were expensive, elegant items bearing images and inscriptions in their own right. They were adjuncts to the sacred images...

.... 81. Leiden: Brill, 2021. xix, 638 pp., 11 figs. $251.00. Thibodeau, Timothy M. Henry V, Holy Warrior: The Reign of a Medieval King in Context . Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland Publishers, 2021. xii, 185 pp., 3 maps, 6 figs. Paper $39.95. Allen, Elizabeth. Uncertain Refuge: Sanctuary...

...: Boydell and Brewer, 2021. xii, 257 pp. Hardcover, OA ebook. Allen, Elizabeth. Uncertain Refuge: Sanctuary in the Literature of Medieval England . The Middle Ages Series. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021. 311 pp., 10 figs. Hardcover, ebook. Vuille, Juliette. Holy Harlots...

... in this volume, “Stranger Arti- sans and the London Sanctuary of St. Martin le Grand in the Reign of Henry VIII,” 545 – 71. 16 John Stow, A Survay of London. Contayning the Originall, Antiquity, Increase, Moderne Estate, and Description of that Citie (London, 1598), 62 – 63. On Stow’s...

... Order of Preachers founded in 1216 by Dominic de Guzman, had violated hierarchical order. 17 The preaching “monks” had been accused of trespassing in the priestly and even episcopal sanctuaries of preaching and hearing confessions. This made them worthy of comparison, even, with the wicked (fictional...

... convincingly for an overtly Catholic stance taken by Donne in the poem, replete with references to the Elizabethan Act of Uniformity (1559), which may be heard in Donne’s descriptions of the Babylonians’ desecration of Israelite feasts, sabbaths, altars, and sanctuaries.10 These are relevant...

... of foreign craftworkers in the London sanctuary of St. Martin le Grand created the conditions not only for the refinement of traditional crafts (luxury shoes and goldwork) but also for the development of new collective forms of civic participation, as when immigrant artisans expressed their soli...

..., Karl. Sanctuary and Crime in the Middle Ages, 400  –  1500. Just Ideas: Transformative Ideals of Justice in Ethical and Political Thought. New York: Fordham University Press, 2011. xiv, 269 pp. $65.00. Sturges, Robert S., ed. Law and Sovereignty in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Arizona...

... Tradition. Grand Rapids, Mich.: William B. Eerdmans, 1999. xviii, 540 pp.; 174 black-and-white figs., 46 color plates. $65.00. 420 Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 30.2 / 2000 Gerstel, Sharon E. J. Beholding the Sacred Mysteries: Programs of the Byzan- tine Sanctuary. College Art...

... hallowed sanctuary for all,” and he goes on to argue that animals, unlike humans, do not destroy their own kind (321–22). The Erasmian humanism of As You Like It builds a multidimensional portrait of virtue as lively, gracious, embodied, performative, hospitable, and always open to irony—aware...

... to the Italian Wars), the Monferrato became part of the lands of the Gonzaga. The first War of Succession followed the death of Vincenzo II Gonzaga. 24 Guido Ratti, “Histoire du Piémont,” L’histoire en Savoie, 115 (1994): 23. 25 Samuel Butler, Alps and Sanctuaries of Piedmont and the Canton Ticino...

... by that which goes before” — the actual examples he uses by no means dispel the allegations. He defends the lack of biblical precedent for these garments, for example, by quoting Ezekiel 42 and 44, in which God stipulates that those who enter his sanctuary to minister shall wear special garments (linen...

... of containment and preservation. Already within the walls of the Church, she would have been drawn into ecstatic vision of the Mass through the narrow, wound-­like squint in the wall of her cell to the space of the sanctuary enclosed within the nave.68 Humanity’s Godlike patterning is fulfilled...

... within the confines of a small, fortified hilltop sanctuary Jerris / Cult Lines and Hellish Mountains 91 known as Canicias.41 As late as the eighth century, legal and ecclesiastical documents—including the Lex Romana Curiensis (ca. 750) and the Capit- ula Remedii (ca...

... marginalized to a chapel underneath the sanctuary or the choir; there was “little room for the sacred” (53). 17 As prestigious as St. Paul’s school was, members of the clergy still complained that the school boys regularly broke windows and pissed on the door of the church of St...

... a larger cur- rency in medieval and early modern culture. Robert Pogue Harrison has argued that Western European kingship and forest conservation are inter- twined.21 While the king’s right to claim and preserve forest tracts as wildlife sanctuaries and royal hunting grounds has been well documented...

... was of the city’s interests in general against those of competing authorities, especially the institutional church. He intervened several times, for example, to challenge ecclesiastical laws of sanctuary, on the grounds that the practice of sheltering criminals in churches was disruptive to civic order...