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: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2015.
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| Summary: | "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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| Physical Description: | xx, 422 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780521517515 (hardback) 0521517516 (hardback) |