Titlebook: Imprisonment in the Medieval Religious Imagination, c. 1150-1400; Megan Cassidy-Welch Book 2011 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmilla

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Incarceration of the Body and Liberation of the Spirit,for women. The containment of the body, the need for material, spatial boundaries and the protection of female virginity were foundational elements of religious enclosure and may easily be traced through the variety of texts advocating and describing anchoritic practice. Modern historians have long

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Didactic Uses of Imprisonment and Captivity,s a space that was to be feared. In this manner, inquisitors were more generally concerned to mark out the boundaries of heretical and anti- heretical behaviours, in order to encourage confession and penitence. I also suggested that the same space of imprisonment could be appropriated by prisoners a

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Didactic Uses of Imprisonment and Captivity,nd their sympathisers in order to challenge or at least contradict the inquisitors themselves. These challenges were often formulated in response to specific abuses of imprisonment, but they also illustrate a particular use of memory as a tool of opportunistic witnessing, with varying degrees of success.

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f 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.978-1-349-31788-2978-0-230-30640-0