Ancient Mediterranean Incarceration

1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-0-520-38722-5
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 258 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 150 mm x 227 mm, Gewicht: 384 g

"A dense, sometimes exhaustingly detailed work, but its stakes turn out to be as high as can be: the origins and meaning of incarceration itself."—The New YorkerA free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.

This book examines spaces, practices, and ideologies of incarceration in the ancient Mediterranean basin from 300 BCE to 600 CE. Analyzing a wide range of sources—including legal texts, archaeological findings, documentary evidence, and visual materials—Matthew D. C. Larsen and Mark Letteney argue that prisons were integral to the social, political, and economic fabric of ancient societies. Ancient Mediterranean Incarceration traces a long history of carceral practices, considering ways in which the institution of prison has been fundamentally intertwined with issues of class, ethnicity, gender, and imperialism. By foregrounding the voices and experiences of the imprisoned, Larsen and Letteney demonstrate the extraordinary durability of carceral structures across time and call for a new historical consciousness around contemporary practices of incarceration.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Larsen, Matthew D.C.

Letteney, Mark

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kriminalsoziologie
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsgeschichte, Recht der Antike
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Kriminologie, Strafverfolgung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

List of Illustrations
Preface
List of Abbreviations

Introduction

PART ONE. IDEALS AND SPACES
1. Incarceration and the Law
2. Spaces of Incarceration

PART TWO. EXPERIENCES AND PERCEPTIONS
3. Experiences of Incarceration
4. Ancient Mediterranean Prison Societies
5. Prison Management

Afterword: The Prison's Antiquity Wendy Warren
Acknowledgments
References
Source Index
Subject Index

Über Autor(innen)

Matthew D. C. Larsen is Professor of New Testament and Early Christian History and Archaeology at the University of Copenhagen.

Mark Letteney is an assistant professor and the Carol Thomas Endowed Professor of Ancient History at the University of Washington.