Seeking Sanctuary: Crime, Mercy, and Politics in English Courts, 1400-1550 by Shannon McSheffrey

Seeking Sanctuary: Crime, Mercy, and Politics in English Courts, 1400-1550

Shannon McSheffrey

288 pages first pub 2017 (editions)

informative reflective slow-paced
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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...

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