The medieval prison
Subtitle: a social history
By: G. Geltner.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Princeton
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780691135335
Subjects: Prisons -- Italy -- History; Social history -- Medieval, 500-1500; Imprisonment -- Italy -- History; Criminal justice, Administration of -- Italy -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Italian prisons - three profiles; title: Venice; title: Florence; title: Bologna; title: Conclusions; title: Aspects of imprisonment; title: Urban development; title: Administration and bureaucracy; title: Finance and economy; title: Punitive imprisonment - jurisprudence, legislation, and practice; title: Conclusions; title: Prison life; title: The terror of arrest; title: First nights; title: Familiar order: the wards; title: Daily life: order and dissidence; title: The world outside; title: The journey's end: death, escape, release; title: Conclusions; title: The prison as place and metaphor; title: Early imaginaries: martyrdom, monasticism, and purgation; title: Excursus: jail-breaking saints; title: From purgation to purgatory: God's great prison; title: This world and the next: the urban prison; title: Conclusions; title: Conclusion: "marginalizing" institutions, instituting marginality; title: Appendixes; title: A Prison inventory from Bologna, 1305; title: Poems from the prison; title: Le stinche - a reconstruction; title: Notes; title: Bibliography; title: Index.