Neuerscheinung: Monastic Prisons and Torture Chambers: Crime and Punishment in Central European Monasteries, 1600-1800

Ulrich L. Lehner, Monastic Prisons and Torture Chambers: Crime and Punishment in Central European Monasteries, 1600-1800, Eugene/OR: Cascade Books 2013. 118 S. ISBN-10: 1625640404; ISBN-13: 978-1625640406. $13.42 (10€). Following the Council of Trent (1545-1563), Catholic religious orders underwent substantial reform. Nevertheless, on occasion monks and nuns had to be disciplined and–if they had committed a crime–punished. Consequently, many religious orders relied on sophisticated criminal l..