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Captivity and imprisonment in Medieval Europe, c. 1000- c. 1300 / Jean Dunbabin.

Title
Captivity and imprisonment in Medieval Europe, c. 1000- c. 1300 / Jean Dunbabin.
Author
Dunbabin, Jean
Publication
New York, N.Y. ; Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2002.

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Description
ix, 207 p.; 23 cm.
Summary
"Captivity and Imprisonment in Medieval Europe explores the history and significance of prisons, both lay and ecclesiastical, in the high middle ages. In so doing, it charts the origin of the kind of prison that was found across western Europe until the great reforms of the modern period."--Cover.
Series Statement
Medieval culture and society
Uniform Title
Medieval culture and society
Subject
  • 500-1500
  • Geschichte 1000-1300
  • Prisons > Europe > History
  • Social history > Medieval, 500-1500
  • Imprisonment > Europe > History
  • Criminal justice, Administration of > Europe > History
Genre/Form
History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Introduction -- The Late Roman Legacy in Western Europe -- The Means of Detention in the High Middle Ages -- Castellans, Jailers and Guards -- The Keeping of Captives in Private Houses -- Coercive Captivity -- Custodial and Punitive Captivity -- Conditions of Captivity -- Release from Prison -- Ecclesiastical Imprisonment -- Imprisonment and the Medieval Imagination -- Conclusion.
ISBN
  • 0333647149
  • 0333647157 (pbk.)
OCLC
  • 50040984
  • SCSB-12864054
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library