Prison, punishment and penance in Late Antiquity
"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"...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge
Cambridge University Press
2015
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| In: | Year: 2015 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Late Antiquity
/ Criminal law
/ Penal justice
/ History
B Late Antiquity / Prison sentence |
| Further subjects: | B
Punishment
History To 1500
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| 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"-- |
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| Item Description: | Rezension (Review): Augustiniana 68 (2018) 316-319 (C. Laes) |
| ISBN: | 0521517516 |