Description
About the Author
Since finishing her PhD at the University of Toronto in 1992, Shannon McSheffrey has taught at Concordia University in Montreal, where she is now Professor of History. She has won several awards for her research and teaching. Over the last twenty-five years she has published books and articles on a number of aspects of late medieval and Tudor England, exploring issues as varied as gender roles, law, civic culture, marriage, literacy, heresy, and popular religion. Seeking Sanctuary grew out of a curiosity about how English people in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries used law, legal records, and legal archives.
Reviews
[Seeking Sanctuary] presents a bold and plausible new interpretation. Yet what makes the book such a pleasure are the fascinating tales it tells about the individual experiences of seeking, running and protecting specific sanctuaries ... Seeking Sanctuary makes an outstanding contribution: while the book may not be the last word on the subject, it has transformed it. * Paul Cavill, History *
Seeking Sanctuary is a marvellous piece of historical research and writing, which greatly advances our understanding of the role and place of sanctuary in early Tudor England. McSheffrey explores her subject through a series of beautifully-crafted case studies and engaging vignettes. ... any subsequent studies of late medieval sanctuary will be greatly in Shannon McSheffrey's debt. * Martin Heale, Sehepunkte *
Seeking Sanctuary's principal contribution is its ability to intertwine the rather haphazard approaches to sanctuary in recent literature, in a way that opens up new and exciting dialogues between the legal, social, political, and religious developments they identified. The footnotes are extensive and the bibliography impressive, attesting to Seeking Sanctuary's position as arguably the most comprehensive treatment of sanctuary-seeking in England for a century. ... Seeking Sanctuary will thus, no doubt, establish itself as the pathfinder for much of the subsequent scholarship on the subject. * Edward J. Everett, Renaissance and Reformtion *
Awards
Winner of Winner of the 2018 Margaret Wade Labarge Prize awarded by the Canadian Society of Medievalists.
Book Information
ISBN 9780198798149
Author Shannon McSheffrey
Format Hardback
Page Count 232
Imprint Oxford University Press
Publisher Oxford University Press
Weight(grams) 508g
Dimensions(mm) 241mm * 173mm * 20mm