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Jun 19, 2014 · Medieval Prisons: Between Myth and Reality, Hell and Purgatory. By Guy Geltner. History Compass, Vol. 4 (2006) Abstract: When were medieval prisons founded? What was life inside them like? How did contemporary observers perceive them?
3 days ago · Drawing on modern penal theory, he asserts that ‘the visibility and accessibility of medieval inmates helped mitigate a tension between social rehabilitation and social destruction, again asserting that medieval prisons and prisoners were neither ‘liminal spaces’ nor ‘liminal people’(p. 57–8).
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Liminality and Spiritual Experience 90 Chiara Croci The Depiction of the Acta Martyrum During the Early Middle Ages. Hints from a Liminal Space, the Transept of Santa Prassede in Rome (817 – 824) 112 Jan Klípa & Eliška Poláčková Tabulae cum portis, vela, cortinae and sudaria.
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The Medieval Prison rewrites penal history and reveals that medieval society did not have a "persecuting mentality" but in fact was more nuanced in defining and dealing with its marginal elements than is commonly recognized. 978-0-691-18768-6. History, Sociology. The modern prison is commonly thought to be the fruit of an Enlightenment penology ...
The structure of the book follows the virtual path of any medieval visitor entering the sacred space. While doing so, the visitor encountered and eventually crossed several "liminal zones" that have been constructed around a series of physical and mental thresholds.
From this perspective, I will develop the notion of prison letters and the archive of booklets in which they are contained as a liminal counter-carceral space: liminal because they are the outcome of the encounter between the inside (prisoners) and the outside (OLGa collective) and counter-carceral because they demonstrate that “authoritative ...
Apr 4, 2008 · Based on archival research in several Italian city-states, this article examines medieval prison life, its attendant pains, and inmate coping strategies by substantially engaging the variety of scholarship on modern incarceration. It demonstrates the limited degree to which current hardships overlap with those of earlier forms of captivity, and ...
