...This chapter recounts Edward the Confessor's exile that was mostly spent in in Normandy for almost twenty-five years. It reviews the responses to proper exile that barely changed between the ninth century and Edward's day. It explains how an exile was expected to feel hardship and affliction...

...This chapter examines how Philo emerged as a central author in the discourse on power, exile, and religion in first-century Rome. Highly aware of the tyrannical features of Claudius's rule, he develops a sophisticated language of projecting criticism onto Claudius's predecessor Gaius. Like his...

... did not engage in warfare and were willing to accept exile and subjugation because they had no alternative. This chapter also cites the view of some writers that the traditional Jewish ethos is an obstacle to be overcome if a life of dignity and freedom, both personal and collective, is to be achieved...

...This chapter discusses Jewish and Christian perspectives of Jewish suffering and exile. As Jews became a people living largely outside their homeland, they came to be viewed by others, especially Christians, as suffering the consequences of their sinfulness, as mired in exile, and as consigned...

... of their purported third exile. agnosticism deism divine punishment and suffering Jewish suffering explanations for scientific revolution traditional views Christianity and Christian perspectives Darwinian thought on human nature Eastern Christianity Enlightenment period Islamic empire Middle Ages...

... Parlement Paris Île de France Louis XV king of France Seven Years’ War Moreau de Saint Méry Médéric Louis Élie forum shopping exile institutions politics revolts maritime history world history travel There is going to be a great misfortune, the creoles [bequets] are going to make...

..., preserving, and transmitting literary traditions from the Judean monarchy. In general, however, the exile must have signaled the end to the literary tradition of Standard Biblical Hebrew. This chapter argues that literary traditions do not disappear overnight and suggests that the legacy of the Standard...

...This chapter analyzes the Old English poem The Wanderer. It suggests that the images of exile in that poem are themselves part of a participation in a culture and that even the lament for a lost world can affirm that world by reinforcing cultural stability by the depiction...

...Alamán’s internal self-exile in Mexico City, when he hid for nearly two years only to emerge in 1834, is discussed in as much detail as is possible for a largely undocumented episode. Having left the government along with the other ministers during 1832, he was being pursued by agents of the state...

..., through a promise, as well as the exile of the king Zedekiah and the people of the kingdom of Judah. It also explores new themes that begin to sound as prophecy develops and concludes by explaining how Israel's future redemption will redeem as well all of the nations. Qumran new testament apocrypha...

...Exile marks a boundary in relation to obligation and loyalty. While in classical times exile sometimes served democratic aims and purposes, as Shklar illustrates with reference to the practices of ostracism, in modern times exile and its conditions are very differently conceived. The author...

...This chapter tells the story of France and Poland’s wartime generation, born in the 1910s and 1920s, which drew inspiration during World War II from the young, upstart icon of Catholic “revolution”: Emmanuel Mounier. Jacques Maritain’s wartime exile to North America afforded him the freedom...

... in nature, guilt is an internal matter closely related to morality. This chapter also considers the honor of Jewish suffering in exile and describes the radical change in self-esteem and in the way the Jewish regarded themselves in modern times. Dignity Geertz Clifford Self restraint Havlaga Shame...

...This chapter examines the Jewish recognition of the shame of exile and the role of Zionism in the recovery of Jewish dignity. It discusses the view of Jewish nationalist thinkers that passive acceptance of violence brought more violence and distorted the moral image of the Jew because the impotence...

... George Wilson Sewell Robert paternalism Wentworth John Banishment Diaspora Exile Punishment Jamaica For seven weeks, starting on March 1, 1796, the Jamaican legislature deliberated how best to protect the future of the island. It arrived at a decision without consulting the military commander...

...This chapter examines the history of the exile of Jewish composers. It explains that Austrian and German Jews became concerned about getting their papers to get out German territory by 1938, and that the majority of them went to either France, Great Britain, or the United States. The chapter also...

...This chapter focuses on the exiles and convicts in Siberia over the eighteenth and first three quarters of the nineteenth century. Since its opening up, Siberia was understood to be a place of punishment and banishment. The “exile system” arose essentially because Russia lacked a prison system. One...

...This chapter discusses Knox's second exile, upon the change of regime in 1553 when Mary Tudor succeeded her half-brother Edward. Leaving England and going into exile for a second time fitted within Knox's prophetic understanding of God's providential purpose, and he was able to move more quickly...

...This chapter describes the eventual destruction of Jerusalem/Zion, the ending of its supposedly eternal Davidic kingship, and the exile to Babylon of much of the surviving population of Jerusalem and Judah. It discusses some of the cries of Judeans in the wake of the destruction of Jerusalem...