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"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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Geltner, G. (Guy), 1974- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2008]
Subjects:
500-1500
Prisons > Italy > History.
Social history > Medieval, 500-1500.
Imprisonment > Italy > History.
Criminal justice, Administration of > Italy > History.
Prisons > Italie > Histoire.
Histoire sociale > 500-1500 (Moyen Âge)
Emprisonnement > Italie > Histoire.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Penology.
Criminal justice, Administration of
Imprisonment
Prisons
Social history > Medieval
Gefängnis
Italy
Italien
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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