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.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xx, 422 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Other Title:

Prison, Punishment & Penance in Late Antiquity

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

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. Dr Hillner argues that forced monastic penance was a product of a late Roman penal landscape that was more complex than previous models of Roman punishment have allowed. She focuses on invigoration of classical normative discourses around punishment as education through Christian concepts of penance, on social uses of corrective confinement that can be found in a vast range of public and private scenarios and spaces, as well as on a literary Christian tradition that gave the experience of punitive imprisonment a new meaning. The book makes an important contribution to recent debates about the interplay between penal strategies and penal practices in the late Roman world.

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

Part III: Prison and Penance

Chapter 9: Monastic confinement and ecclesiastical justice

Chapter 10: Monastic confinement and imperial justice

Conclusions.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-316-30806-5

1-316-32144-4

1-316-32812-0

1-316-33146-6

1-316-32478-8

1-316-31808-7

1-139-01517-6