“Crime and Punishment”: Aspects of the Western Cenobitic Penal System (Fifth and Sixth Centuries)
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The aim of this paper is to explore the impulse behind the punitive system developed by Western Cenobitic monastic rules (fifth–?sixth centuries). Several aspects will be successively analyzed: The broadening of the scope of the illicit and the penalizing of the tiniest fault, the nature of the Cenobitic penal system and its therapeutic orientation. Finally, the means of repression and the ways in which the early monastic rules used the body and the mechanics of shame to implement punishment will be examined.
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