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 |
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Availability in Tübingen: | Present in Tübingen. UB: KB 20 A 7519 |
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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) |
Physical Description: | XX, 422 S. Kt. cm |
ISBN: | 9780521517515 0521517516 |