Prison, Punishment and Penance in Late Antiquity by Julia Hillner

Prison, Punishment and Penance in Late Antiquity

Julia Hillner

444 pages first pub 2015 (view editions)

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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 th...

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