Incarceration in the Fourteenth Century
Sponsoring Organization(s)
14th Century Society
Organizer Name
Aleksandra Pfau, Wendy J. Turner
Organizer Affiliation
Hendrix College, Georgia Regents Univ.
Presider Name
William H. York
Presider Affiliation
Portland State Univ.
Paper Title 1
"Inside a Most Fortified Little House": Communities and the Imprisonment of the Senseless in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries
Presenter 1 Name
Leigh Ann Craig
Presenter 1 Affiliation
Virginia Commonwealth Univ.
Paper Title 2
Handcuffs, Chains, and Ropes: Medieval English Restraint and Incarceration of the Mentally Afflicted
Presenter 2 Name
Wendy J. Turner
Paper Title 3
"In Danger of Losing my Life": Prison as Punishment in French Remission Letters
Presenter 3 Name
Aleksandra Pfau
Start Date
16-5-2015 10:00 AM
Session Location
Fetzer 1045
Description
Recent scholarship on the many forms of incarceration in the Middle Ages has begun to complicate the notion that the prison is an inherently modern phenomenon. There were a wide variety of methods for limiting people's mobility in the Middle Ages with a multiplicity of purposes. This session will examine some of these different types of medieval incarceration, whether of the criminal, the captive, the religious, or the insane, considering how medieval people understood incarceration both as a concrete experience and as a metaphor.
Aleksandra Pfau
Incarceration in the Fourteenth Century
Fetzer 1045
Recent scholarship on the many forms of incarceration in the Middle Ages has begun to complicate the notion that the prison is an inherently modern phenomenon. There were a wide variety of methods for limiting people's mobility in the Middle Ages with a multiplicity of purposes. This session will examine some of these different types of medieval incarceration, whether of the criminal, the captive, the religious, or the insane, considering how medieval people understood incarceration both as a concrete experience and as a metaphor.
Aleksandra Pfau