Medieval Prison A Social History

Name: Medieval Prison A Social History
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ISBN: 9780691135335

ISBN-10: 0691135339

ISBN-13: 9780691135335

Edition: 2008

Authors: G. Geltner

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The modern prison is commonly thought to be the fruit of an Enlightenment penology that stressed man's ability to reform his soul.The Medieval Prisonchallenges this view by tracing the institution's emergence to a much earlier period beginning in the late thirteenth century, and in doing so provides a unique view of medieval prison life. G. Geltner carefully reconstructs life inside the walls of prisons in medieval Venice, Florence, Bologna, and elsewhere in Europe. He argues that many enduring features of the modern prison--including administration, finance, and the classification of inmates--were already developed by the end of the fourteenth century, and that incarceration as a formal…

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List price: $53.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 7/21/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 224
Size: 6.30" wide x 9.49" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

G. Geltner is professor of medieval history at the University of Amsterdam.



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


A Note on Dates and Money


Prologue


Introduction



Italian Prisons: Three Profiles


Venice


Florence


Bologna


Conclusions



Aspects of Imprisonment


Urban Development


Administration and Bureaucracy


Finance and Economy


Punitive Imprisonment: Jurisprudence, Legislation, and Practice


Conclusions



Prison Life


The Terror of Arrest


First Nights


Familiar Order: The Wards


Daily Life: Order and Dissidence


The World Outside


The Journey's End: Death, Escape, Release


Conclusions



The Prison as Place and Metaphor


Early Imaginaries: Martyrdom, Monasticism, and Purgation


Excursus: Jail-Breaking Saints


From Purgation to Purgatory: God's Great Prison


This World and the Next: The Urban Prison


Conclusions


Conclusion: "Marginalizing" Institutions, Instituting Marginality



A Prison Inventory from Bologna, 1305



Poems from the Prison



Le Stinche, a Reconstruction


Abbreviations and Archives


Notes


Bibliography


Index