Prison, Punishment and Penance in Late Antiquity

Autorentext
Julia Hillner is Senior Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Sheffield. She is co-editor, with Kate Cooper, of Religion, Dynasty, and Patronage in Early Christian Rome, 300-900 (2007).

Klappentext
This book argues that late antiquity introduced a legal form of punitive imprisonment, complicating the concept of the 'birth of the prison'.

Zusammenfassung
The first book in English on the Roman prison, and the first on the Roman prison's late antique incarnation as a penal institution. It describes how late Roman penal strategies, in particular different spatial forms of imprisonment, responded to new social values of penance and purification of society.

Inhalt
Introduction; Part I. Punishment, Reform and Penance: 1. Philosophical and domestic foundations; 2. Punishment and reform in early imperial legal thought; 3. Christian principles of punishment; 4. Punishment, reform and penance in late Roman law; Conclusions; Part II. Prison and Punishment: 5. The public prison in late antiquity; 6. Private power and punitive confinement; 7. Exile and confinement; 8. Exile, prison and the Christian imagination; Conclusions; Part III. Prison and Penance: 9. Monastic confinement and ecclesiastical justice; 10. Monastic confinement and imperial justice; Conclusions; Appendix I. Places of forced residence; Appendix II. Places of exiles' confinement; Appendix III. Places of monastic confinement.

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