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

by Cassidy-Welch, Megan

• ISBN13: 9780230242487
• ISBN10: 0230242480
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-06-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Megan Cassidy-Welch is an 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 and co-editor (with Peter Sherlock) of Practices of Gender in Medieval and Early Modern Europe as well as numerous articles on space, memory and religion in the high middle ages.

Table of Contents

List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Incarceration of the Body and Liberation of the Spirit
Prison Miracles and the Cult of Saints
Imprisonment, Memory and Space in the Early Inquisition
Didactic Uses of Imprisonment
Imprisonment and Freedom in the Lives of Louis IX
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index