Prison, Punishment and Penance in Late Antiquity - 9781009296410

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.

• | : Julia Hillner (University of Sheffield)
• | Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• | Publication Date: Sep 15, 2022
• | Country of Publication: United Kingdom
• | Number of Pages: 442 pages
• | Language: Unknown
• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-10: 1009296418
• | ISBN-13: 9781009296410