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Jun 19, 2014 · Introduction: The creation of prisons as punitive institutions is commonly dated to the late eighteenth century, and is attributed to the influence of Enlightenment ideas about man’s ability to reform his soul and the State’s prerogative in implementing this process. The accepted chronology denies the penal role of prisons at any time ...
5 days ago · Income derived from fines and debt collection as well as fees, a common subject in the medieval prison literature. One important fee, agevolatura , was to ameliorate daily prison life and was the most substantial source of income.
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Feb 1, 2010 · Book Reviews. From archival research conducted principally in four Italian city-states—Florence, Venice, Bologna, and Siena—Guy Geltner, in The Medieval Prison, argues persuasively for a new chronology of penal systems in the West. Against the prevailing historiography—which argues that prisons became central institutions of punitive ...
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Mar 10, 2006 · Addressing such questions, this article brings together over a century of scholarship that undermines the traditional dating of the prison's “birth,” sheds light on the tolerable realities of medieval captivity, and identifies a range of contemporary interpretations of prison life and spaces.
Publication Details. Geltner, Guy, The Medieval Prison: A Social History (Princeton University / Princeton University Press, 2008). The SSRC makes available interdisciplinary research to inform policy, academic discourse, and the public. These publications are freely accessible and include policy working papers to essays for the general public.
Nov 19, 2008 · The Medieval Prison challenges 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. Guy Geltner carefully reconstructs life inside the walls of prisons in medieval Venice, Florence, Bologna, and elsewhere in Europe.
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 Prisonchalle...
