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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"...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2015.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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
- Conclusions
- Part III: Prison and Penance
- Chapter 9: Monastic confinement and ecclesiastical justice
- Chapter 10: Monastic confinement and imperial justice
- Conclusions.