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Captivity and imprisonment in Medieval Europe, 1000-1300

"Captivity and Imprisonment in Medieval Europe explores the history and significance of prisons, both lay and ecclesiastical, in the high middle ages. In so doing, it charts the origin of the kind of prison that was found across western Europe until the great reforms of the modern period."—BOOK JACKET.

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 207 pages

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