Monastic Prisons and Torture Chambers: Crime and Punishment in Central European Monasteries, 1600-1800 - Couverture souple

Lehner, Ulrich L.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1625640404 ISBN 13 : 9781625640406

Editeur : Cascade Books, 2013

Synopsis

Following the Council of Trent (1545-1563), Catholic religious orders underwent substantial reform. Nevertheless, on occasion monks and nuns had to be disciplined and--if they had committed a crime--punished. Consequently, many religious orders relied on sophisticated criminal law traditions that included torture, physical punishment, and prison sentences. Ulrich L. Lehner provides for the first time an overview of how monasteries in central Europe prosecuted crime and punished their members, and thus introduces a host of new questions for anyone interested in state-church relations, gender questions, the history of violence, or the development of modern monasticism.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Ulrich L. Lehner is the William K. Warren Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author or editor of over two dozen books on early modern religion, including Catholic Enlightenment (2016), and the main organizer of The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Theology (2016).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cascade Books
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1625640404
• ISBN 13: 9781625640406
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 118
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible