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The Medieval Prison : A Social History /
"The modern prison is commonly thought to be the fruit of an Enlightenment penology that stressed man's ability to reform his soul. The Medieval Prison challenges this view by tracing the institution's emergence to a much earlier period beginning in the late thirteenth century, and in...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
[2008]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- Italian prisons : three profiles
- Venice
- Florence
- Bologna
- Conclusions
- Aspects of imprisonment
- Urban development
- Administration and bureaucracy
- Finance and economy
- Punitive imprisonment : jurisprudence, legislation, and practice
- Conclusions
- Prison life
- The terror of arrest
- First nights
- Familiar order : the wards
- Daily life : order and dissidence
- The world outside
- The journey's end : death, escape, release
- Conclusions
- The prison as place and metaphor
- Early imaginaries : martyrdom, monasticism, and purgation
- Excursus : jail-breaking saints
- From purgation to purgatory : God's great prison
- This world and the next : the urban prison
- Conclusions
- Conclusion : "marginalizing" institutions, instituting marginality
- Appendix 1: Prison inventory from Bologna, 1305
- Appendix 2: Poems from the prison
- Appendix 3: Le stinche, a reconstruction
- Abbreviations and archives
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.