Prison, punishment and penance in late antiquity / Julia Hillner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hillner, Julia, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Punishment--History--To 1500.

Punishment.

History.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xx, 422 pages : maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2015.

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.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Introduction; Part I. Punishment, Reform and Penance: 1. Philosophical and domestic foundations; 2. Punishment and reform in early imperial legal thought; 3. Christian principles of punishment; 4. Punishment, reform and penance in late Roman law; Conclusions; Part II. Prison and Punishment: 5. The public prison in late antiquity; 6. Private power and punitive confinement; 7. Exile and confinement; 8. Exile, prison and the Christian imagination; Conclusions; Part III. Prison and Penance: 9. Monastic confinement and ecclesiastical justice; 10. Monastic confinement and imperial justice; Conclusions; Appendix I. Places of forced residence; Appendix II. Places of exiles' confinement; Appendix III. Places of monastic confinement.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780521517515

0521517516

OCLC:

898530067

Publisher Number:

9780521517515

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