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"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 institutio
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This book argues that late antiquity introduced a legal form of punitive imprisonment, complicating the concept of the 'birth of the prison'.
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Karl Valentin once asked: "How can it be that only as much happens as fits into the newspaper the next day?" He focussed on the problem that information of the
Social Control in Late Antiquity
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Explores how in late antiquity women, slaves, and children claimed agency in small-scale communities despite intimidation by the powerful.
Hell Hath No Fury
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The first major book to examine ancient Christian literature on hell through the lenses of gender and disability studies Throughout the Christian tradition, des