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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. "Lehner's brave, ambitious, and learned study uncovers the little-known history of secret monastic prisons for wayward monks and nuns, and the clandestine use of torture in monastic legal proceedings. ... This is church history at its best. It deserves to be widely known and imitated."--H.C. Erik Midelfort, University of Virginia "In this path-breaking, lucid book, Ulrich Lehner challenges conventional wisdom on the nature and purpose of prisons and punishment in early modern central Europe.-- Provided by Publisher

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Author

Ulrich L. Lehner

Publisher

Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9781625640406

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Christian, Philosophy