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Imprisonment in the Medieval Religious Imagination, c. 1150-1400

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  • © 2011

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Authors:
  1. Megan Cassidy-Welch

    1. Monash University, Australia

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction

    • Megan Cassidy-Welch
    Pages 1-14

  3. Incarceration of the Body and Liberation of the Spirit

    • Megan Cassidy-Welch
    Pages 15-35

  4. Prison Miracles and the Cult of Saints

    • Megan Cassidy-Welch
    Pages 36-57

  5. Imprisonment, Memory and Space in the Early Inquisitions

    • Megan Cassidy-Welch
    Pages 58-79

  6. Didactic Uses of Imprisonment and Captivity

    • Megan Cassidy-Welch
    Pages 80-100

  7. Imprisonment and Freedom in the Life of Louis IX

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    Pages 101-123

  8. Conclusion

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    Pages 124-134

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 135-192
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This book explores the world of religious thinking on imprisonment, and how images of imprisonment were used in monastic thought, the cult of saints, the early inquisitions, preaching and hagiographical literature and the world of the crusades to describe a conception of inclusion and freedom that was especially meaningful to medieval Christians.

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  • Monash University, Australia

    Megan Cassidy-Welch

About the author

MEGAN CASSIDY-WELCH is ARC Future Fellow in the School of Philosophical, Historical and International Studies, Monash University, Australia. She has taught Medieval History at the University of Tasmania and the University of Melbourne. She is the author of Monastic Spaces and their Meanings: Thirteenth-Century English Cistercian Monasteries (2001) and co-editor (with Peter Sherlock) of Practices of Gender in Medieval and Early Modern Europe (2008) as well as numerous articles on space, memory and religion in the high middle ages.

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