Emaré / Egaré
Sanctuary and Exile, Law and Romance
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4188193 |
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| Authors | Elizabeth Allen (0000-0002-2689-6939), Elizabeth G Allen (0000-0002-1832-0331, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 91 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 593-618 |
| Publication date | 2024-06-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0037-783X • E-ISSN: 1944-768X |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/sor.2024.a930758 |
| OpenAlex | W4400126022 |
| Language | FR |
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 ending, but as with legal sanctuary, romance remedy is uncertain and provisional by design. Medieval law and romance furnish a concept of sanctuary that frames exile as contrapuntal awareness of both mitigation and suffering
Adventure · Art · Art history · Literature · Mythology · Political science · Romance · Sociology · History · Law · Medieval Literature and History
| Highly cited | No |
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