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Prison, punishment and penance in late antiquity
Author
Title
Prison, punishment and penance in late antiquity / Julia Hillner.
ISBN
9780521517515 (hardback)
0521517516 (hardback)
Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Physical Description
xx, 422 pages : maps ; 24 cm.
Summary
"This book traces the long-term genesis of the sixth- century Roman legal penalty of forced monastic penance. The late antique evidence on this penal institution runs counter to a scholarly consensus that Roman legal principle did not acknowledge the use of corrective punitive confinement"-- Provided by publisher.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
November 09, 2015
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 387-414) and index.
Contents
Introduction
Part I: Punishment, reform and penance
Chapter I: Philosophical and domestic foundations
Chapter 2: Punishment and reform in early imperial legal thought
Chapter 3: Christian Principles of punishment
Chapter 4: Punishment, reform and penance in late Roman law
Conclusions
Part II: Prison and Punishment
Chapter 5: The public prison in late antiquity
Chapter 6: Private power and punitive confinement
Chapter 7: Exile and confinement
Chapter 8: Exile, prison and the Christian imagination
Conclusions
Part III: Prison and Penance
Chapter 9: Monastic confinement and ecclesiastical justice
Chapter 10: Monastic confinement and imperial justice
Conclusions.
Subjects
Genre/Form
History.
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