Prison, punishment and penance in late antiquity / Julia Hillner.
"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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Cambridge University Press,
2015.
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