Elizabeth G Allen
Biographic Data
| ID | 6347965 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elizabeth G Allen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elizabeth G |
| FAMILY NAME | Allen |
| SIGNATURE | ALLEN E G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Irvine |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1832-0331 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Emaré / Egaré
Edward Said writes that exile produces the towering myth of the modern nation. But the medieval legal history of sanctuary and exile offers an alternative model of provisional survival and transition. In the Middle English lay Emaré , sanctuary and exile are romanced; legal predicament is rendered as adventure and opened for examination. Incest and exile in a rudderless boat, marriage, childbirth, and a second exile eventually achieve a happy end…
Medieval sanctuary, gothic entrapment, and the fugitive self in Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad
"Piers Plowman" and the Reinvention of Church Law in the Late Middle Ages
Arvind Thomas has written a meticulous and innovative book arguing that Piers Plowman not only reflects the language of canon law but intervenes in canonical ideas about contrition, confession, restitution, and satisfaction, understood here as juridical in character. Indeed, taking a cue from John Alford, Thomas's argument is an extension of the idea that William Langland pushed the analogies between law and theology “further than anyone else dar…
A Once and Future King
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 of Richard Plantagenet's extraction from sanctuary at Westminster in The History of Richard III (1557). Moreover, Ford redirects the language of contemporary chroniclers Fran…
The silent woman
The British detective novel has moved from a smug middle-class parochialism to an engagement with the global narrative of human trafficking, particularly sex trafficking. The genre has been claimed as the literary form best suited to offer a narrative of migration to counter the simplifications and xenophobia of the popular media. The global ‘turn’ is, however, illusory as its structures are fatally constrained by generic expectations. The narrat…
Fifth Graders Do “Real Work” on the Computer
(1988). Fifth Graders Do “Real Work” on the Computer. The Social Studies: Vol. 79, No. 2, pp. 78-80
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Fifth Graders Do “Real Work” on the Computer
(1988). Fifth Graders Do “Real Work” on the Computer. The Social Studies: Vol. 79, No. 2, pp. 78-80
The silent woman
The British detective novel has moved from a smug middle-class parochialism to an engagement with the global narrative of human trafficking, particularly sex trafficking. The genre has been claimed as the literary form best suited to offer a narrative of migration to counter the simplifications and xenophobia of the popular media. The global ‘turn’ is, however, illusory as its structures are fatally constrained by generic expectations. The narrat…
A Once and Future King
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 of Richard Plantagenet's extraction from sanctuary at Westminster in The History of Richard III (1557). Moreover, Ford redirects the language of contemporary chroniclers Fran…
"Piers Plowman" and the Reinvention of Church Law in the Late Middle Ages
Arvind Thomas has written a meticulous and innovative book arguing that Piers Plowman not only reflects the language of canon law but intervenes in canonical ideas about contrition, confession, restitution, and satisfaction, understood here as juridical in character. Indeed, taking a cue from John Alford, Thomas's argument is an extension of the idea that William Langland pushed the analogies between law and theology “further than anyone else dar…
Medieval sanctuary, gothic entrapment, and the fugitive self in Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad
Emaré / Egaré
Edward Said writes that exile produces the towering myth of the modern nation. But the medieval legal history of sanctuary and exile offers an alternative model of provisional survival and transition. In the Middle English lay Emaré , sanctuary and exile are romanced; legal predicament is rendered as adventure and opened for examination. Incest and exile in a rudderless boat, marriage, childbirth, and a second exile eventually achieve a happy end…
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