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Prison, Punishment and Penance in Late Antiquity

[Hardback]

by Julia Hillner

    • Author

      Julia Hillner

    • Book Format

      Hardback

    • Publisher

      Cambridge University Press

    • Published

      June 2015

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      Prison, Punishment and Penance in Late Antiquity

      Today's Price £84.75

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      Product Description

      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.

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      • Author

        Julia Hillner

      • Book Format

        Hardback

      • Publisher

        Cambridge University Press

      • Published

        June 2015

      • Weight

        750g

      • Page Count

        440

      • Dimensions

        153 x 229 x 26 mm

      • ISBN

        9780521517515

      • ISBN-10

        0521517516

      • Eden Code

        4313564

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      • Author/Creator: Julia Hillner

      • ISBN: 9780521517515

      • Publisher: Cambridge University Press

      • Release Date: June 2015

      • Weight: 750g

      • Dimensions: 153 x 229 x 26 mm

      • Eden Code: 4313564

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