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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Format: | Print Book |
Language: | English |
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Cambridge
Cambridge University Press
2015
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In: | Year: 2015 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Late Antiquity
/ Criminal law
/ Penal justice
/ History
B Late Antiquity / Prison sentence |
Further subjects: | B
Punishment
History To 1500
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