Bücher der Reihe Medieval Culture and Society

This book explores the growing importance of prisons, both lay and ecclesiastical, in western Europe between 1000 and 1300. It discusses conditions within prisons, the means of release open to some captives, and writing in or about prison.

This study investigates the place of the royal court and the operation of patronage in several European kingdoms in the early Middle Ages. It seeks to identify the roots of later medieval developments, and especially of the Carolingian Renaissance, in the centuries immediately succeeding the period of Roman rule.