Captivity and imprisonment in Medieval Europe, 1000-1300
By: Jean Dunbabin.
Series: Medieval culture and society
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 207
Subjects: Prisons -- Europe -- History; Social history -- Medieval, 500-1500; Imprisonment -- Europe -- History; Criminal justice, Administration of -- Europe -- History
Description: "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."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-202) and index.