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The medieval prison : a social history
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Title
The medieval prison : a social history / G. Geltner.
ISBN
9780691135335 (alk. paper)
0691135339 (alk. paper)
Published
Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2008.
Physical Description
xviii, 197 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 17, 2009
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-194) and index.
Contents
Introduction
Italian prisons : three profiles
Venice
Florence
Bologna
Conclusions
Aspects of imprisonment
Urban development
Administration and bureaucracy
Finance and economy
Punitive imprisonment : jurisprudence, legislation, and practice
Conclusions
Prison life
The terror of arrest
First nights
Familiar order : the wards
Daily life : order and dissidence
The world outside
The journey's end : death, escape, release
Conclusions
The prison as place and metaphor
Early imaginaries : martyrdom, monasticism, and purgation
Excursus : jail-breaking saints
From purgation to purgatory : God's great prison
This world and the next : the urban prison
Conclusions
Conclusion : "marginalizing" institutions, instituting marginality
Appendix 1: Prison inventory from Bologna, 1305
Appendix 2: Poems from the prison
Appendix 3: Le stinche, a reconstruction
Abbreviations and archives
Notes
Bibliography
Index.
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