This book explores the growing importance of prisons, both lay and ecclesiastical, in western Europe between 1000 and 1300. It attempts to explain what captors hoped to achieve by restricting the liberty of others, the means of confinement available to them, and why there was an increasingly close link between captivity and suspected criminal activity. It discusses conditions within prisons, the means of release open to some captives, and writing in or about prison.

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'An excellent book.' - Dr John Hudson, University of St Andrews

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St Anne’s College, University of Oxford, UK

Jean Dunbabin

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JEAN DUNBABIN is a Fellow of, and tutor at, St Anne's College, University of Oxford. She is also Reader in Medieval History at the University.

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Book Title: Captivity and Imprisonment in Medieval Europe, 1000-1300
Authors: Jean Dunbabin
Series Title: Medieval Culture and Society
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403940278
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2002
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-333-64714-1Due: 23 October 2002
Softcover ISBN: 978-0-333-64715-8Published: 23 October 2002
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4039-4027-8Published: 23 October 2002
Series ISSN: 2947-0315
Series E-ISSN: 2947-0323
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 207
Topics: European History, Modern History, Ancient History, Social History, Cultural History, World History, Global and Transnational History

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