Incarceration and Liberation: Prisons in the Cistercian Monastery
Megan Cassidy‐Welch
"Incarceration and Liberation: Prisons in the Cistercian Monastery." This article explores means by which Cistercians from thirteenth century were able to use justify imprisonment their monastic houses. It traces invention of prison advent cenobitic monasticism discursive construction captivity as a fundamental element western life. The author particularly looks at tension between spiritual understandings freedom confinement, reality actual incarceration setting. positions history prisons within specific cultural contexts; this way, it departs traditional reading part legal political history. In tracing meanings given Cistercians, contends that medieval uses closely linked space historical ecclesiastical contexts early pivotal justifications incarceration.
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