Captivity and Imprisonment in Medieval Europe, C. 1000-C. 1300 (Medieval Culture and Society)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: January 18, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780333647141
Subjects: Crime & criminology; European history: c 500 to c 1500; Slavery & emancipation; Social history; c 1000 CE to c 1500; History - General History; History: World; Europe; Eastern Europe - General; Medieval; Penology; History / Medieval; Western Europe - General; History; Imprisonment; Medieval, 500-1500; Prisons
First sentence: It is the argument of this book that what Hobbes said in 1651 offers an effective path into understanding medieval ways of thinking about restraints imposed by one man or a collective on the liberty of another.