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Prison, Punishment and Penance in Late Antiquity (Paperback)
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Prison, Punishment and Penance in Late Antiquity (Paperback)
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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. Dr Hillner argues that forced
monastic penance was a product of a late Roman penal landscape that
was more complex than previous models of Roman punishment have
allowed. She focuses on invigoration of classical normative
discourses around punishment as education through Christian
concepts of penance, on social uses of corrective confinement that
can be found in a vast range of public and private scenarios and
spaces, as well as on a literary Christian tradition that gave the
experience of punitive imprisonment a new meaning. The book makes
an important contribution to recent debates about the interplay
between penal strategies and penal practices in the late Roman
world.
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