Safe Spaces
Barbara Newman, 21 July 2022
Uncertain Refuge: Sanctuary in the Literature of Medieval England
by Elizabeth Allen.
Pennsylvania, 311 pp., £52, October 2021,978 0 8122 5344 3 Show More
by Elizabeth Allen.
Pennsylvania, 311 pp., £52, October 2021,
“... his play The Chronicle History of Perkin Warbeck (1634). Warbeck was a pretender who claimed to be Richard, Duke of York, one of the princes in the Tower murdered by Richard III. The new king, Henry VII, refers to pursuing the pretender in his quest for sanctuary: ‘How closely we have ... ”