Medievalists.net » Prisons http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Tue, 08 Dec 2015 00:51:07 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 Prisons and Punishments in Late Medieval London http://www.medievalists.net/2014/07/27/prisons-punishments-late-medieval-london/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/07/27/prisons-punishments-late-medieval-london/#comments Sun, 27 Jul 2014 16:17:44 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=51378 This thesis begins with an analysis of the purpose of imprisonment, which was not merely custodial and was undoubtedly punitive in the medieval period. Having established that incarceration was employed for a variety of purposes the physicality of prison buildings and the conditions in which prisoners were kept are considered.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/07/27/prisons-punishments-late-medieval-london/feed/ 0 A Cell of their Own: The Incarceration of Women in Late Medieval Italy http://www.medievalists.net/2013/09/03/a-cell-of-their-own-the-incarceration-of-women-in-late-medieval-italy/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/09/03/a-cell-of-their-own-the-incarceration-of-women-in-late-medieval-italy/#comments Wed, 04 Sep 2013 01:31:33 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=43382 I will then move to sketch the social profile of female inmates, mainly drawing on the records of Le Stinche, the Florentine municipal prison, during its first century of activity, circa 1300–1400.

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