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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Main Author: Hillner, Julia (Author)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2015
In:Year: 2015
Online Access: Cover (Verlag)
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Availability in Tübingen:Present in Tübingen.
UB: KB 20 A 7519
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Keywords:
Punishment > History > To 1500
Spätantike > Freiheitsstrafe
Spätantike > Strafrecht > Strafjustiz > Geschichte
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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"--
Item Description:Rezension (Review): Augustiniana 68 (2018) 316-319 (C. Laes)
Physical Description:XX, 422 S. Kt. cm
ISBN:9780521517515
0521517516