Prison, Punishment and Penance in Late Antiquity

Prison, Punishment and Penance in Late Antiquity
Author: Julia Hillner
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 443
Release: 2015-06-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 1316297896

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. Dr Hillner argues that forced monastic penance was a product of a late Roman penal landscape that was more complex than previous models of Roman punishment have allowed. She focuses on invigoration of classical normative discourses around punishment as education through Christian concepts of penance, on social uses of corrective confinement that can be found in a vast range of public and private scenarios and spaces, as well as on a literary Christian tradition that gave the experience of punitive imprisonment a new meaning. The book makes an important contribution to recent debates about the interplay between penal strategies and penal practices in the late Roman world.

The Duration and Nature of Future Punishment

The Duration and Nature of Future Punishment
Author: Henry Constable
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 82
Release: 2023-06-13
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3382809710

Reprint of the original, first published in 1872. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

Salutary Punishment

Salutary Punishment
Author: Ian Church
Publisher:
Total Pages: 120
Release: 2019
Genre: Dunedin (N.Z.)
ISBN: 9780473456047

The title Salutary Punishment is deliberately provoking and patronizing. It is quoted from a statement made by Lieutenant-Colonel St John in 1873, speaking of the Otago Prisoners. An example of the unfortunate state of our Nation at the time. In November 2019 it will be 150 years since 74 men from Te Pakakohi tribe in the Patea area were sent to Dunedin as prisoners of the Crown. By putting tribal allegiance first Pakakohi automatically became guilty of treason. A decade later 137 Parihaka men received the same prison sentence for ploughing their confiscated land as a sign of passive resistance to this action. These were dark days in the history of our country, but the telling of these times is more important today than ever. Ka mua, ka muri; we must look back in order to move forward.