Gregory the Great's "Prisons": Monastic Confinement in Early Byzantine Italy
In the sixth century, emperors, kings, and bishops discovered the monastery as a tool of government. In particular, this century saw the transition of confinement in a monastery from a voluntary form of penance to a legal penalty. Recent scholarship has very much concentrated on the role of civic ru...
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| Language: | English |
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2011
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Journal of early Christian studies
Year: 2011, Volume: 19, Issue: 3, Pages: 433-471 |
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