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- Title
Flight from Prosecution: The Search for Religious Asylum in Medieval Montpellier.
- Authors
Reyerson, Kathryn L.
- Abstract
Examines religious asylum in the commercial, financial, and university center of Montpellier, France in the early 14th-century through the record of a municipal inquest of 1332 contained in a lengthy manuscript dossier from the Archives municipales de Montpellier. Testimony by asylums and the reaction of lay authorities to it; Question of whether it was Montpellier practice to interrogate persons accused by crimes in religious houses where they sought asylum.
- Subjects
FRANCE; RIGHT of asylum; 14TH century French history; CRIME
- Publication
French Historical Studies, 1992, Vol 17, Issue 3, p603
- ISSN
0016-1071
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/286564