... 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, licences and con- 558  Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 43.3 / 2013 firmacions” made to the abbott and his...

...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...

..., 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...

... between the veil, real presence, and community/communion by alluding to the liturgical act of displaying the presanctified gifts at the lifting of the aer . Alternatively, I believe that yet another formal resemblance may be detected between the miracle and the rites concerning the templon, or sanctuary...

... by alien artisans. See Edward H. Sugden, A Topographical Dictionary to the Works of Shakespeare and His Fellow Dramatists (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1925), 334 – 35. See also Shannon McSheffrey’s essay in this volume, “Stranger Arti- sans and the London Sanctuary of St...

... religious order, the clerical mendicant 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...

... 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 knowl- edge. In mid-­sixteenth-­century England, McSheffrey argues, the concentra- tion 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...

..., 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...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

... the ideal model for an integrated universe wherein each fragment of the cosmos contained within its very structure a perfect “fit” or “place” in the whole. He wrote in the essay “Nature and Man”: It would be a mistake to preserve some zone of mystery; some sanctuary for the sacred...

... at all, dying as lifelong singlewomen. Their circumstances differed from Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 42:2, Spring 2012 DOI © 2012 by Duke University Press those of single men. A negligible number found sanctuary in convents; in a population of several...

... the Gate of S. Croce to the gallows. Tommaso never got there. Crowds of his supporters clogged the way and forced a detour before tearing Tommaso from the cart and spiriting him off to the nearby Franciscan church of S. Croce for sanctuary. Civic officials went in after him and brought him...