Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Note on Translation ix
4. Introduction. Medieval Sanctuary: Legal History and Symbolic Action 1
5. Chapter 1. The Miracle of Cuthbert’s Stag 33
6. Chapter 2. The Flight of the King’s Man: Hubert de Burgh in the Chronica Majora 69
7. Chapter 3. Breaches at Westminster and the Making of a Sanctuary King 102
8. Chapter 4. The Dark Sanctuary of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight 137
9. Chapter 5. Robin Hood and the Limits of Sanctuary 172
10. Chapter 6. Kingship and the Politics of Pity in the Histories of Perkin Warbeck 196
11. Coda. Sanctuary in Southwest Georgia, 1962 225
12. Notes 237
13. Bibliography 279
14. Index 297
15. Acknowledgments 309