Monastery Prisons

Author : Daniel H. Shubin
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2001-05-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781462837687

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Monastery Prisons by Daniel H. Shubin Pdf

Little is known regarding prisons located inside Russian Orthodox Monasteries for the incarceration of religious dissenters and sectarians, political activists and criminals. This book focuses on the history of such a prison system and the lives and convictions of the inmates subject to incarceration by Imperial Russia and the Russian Orthodox Church. The period covered begins 1441, with the arrival of Isidore, the metropolitan of Moscow, to the Moscow Chudov (Miracles) Monastery for incarceration, and ends 1905, when the final inmates were released from the Suzdal Spasso-Evfimiev Monastery, coincident with the edict of religious toleration of Tsar Nicholas II. Likewise included are the women incarcerated in convents over the same period. This is a part of history that is unknown to the non-Russian speaking world and which the author hopes to unveil. With 11 photographs.

Author : Daniel H. Shubin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-21
Category : History
ISBN : 1365413586

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Monastery Prisons by Daniel H. Shubin Pdf

Little is known regarding prisons located inside Russian Orthodox monasteries for the incarceration and persecution of religious dissenters and sectarians, political activists, and criminals. This book focuses on the history of such prisons and the lives of the inmates subject to monastery incarceration by Imperial Russia and the Russian Orthodox Church. The period covered begins 1441, and ends 1905. Likewise included are the women incarcerated in convents over the same period. This is a part of history that is unknown to the non-Russian speaking world, and which the author hopes to unveil. This book deals with the fate of those known as monastery prisoners, those individuals having the misfortune due to violations against Orthodoxy, or against Imperial Russia, to be incarcerated in a monastery prison. Daniel H Shubin has written several books on history, philosophy and religion of Russia.

Author : Ulrich Lehner
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781625640406

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Monastic Prisons and Torture Chambers by Ulrich Lehner Pdf

"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 law traditions that included torture, physical punishment, and prison sentences. Ulrich L. Lehner provides for the first time an overview of how monasteries in central Europe prosecuted crime and punished their members, and thus introduces a host of new questions for anyone interested in state-church relations, gender questions, the history of violence, or the development of modern monasticism."

Author : Isabel De Madariaga
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317881896

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Politics and Culture in Eighteenth-Century Russia by Isabel De Madariaga Pdf

This is a collection of thirteen major essays on eighteenth-century Russia by one of the most distinguished Western historians. They illustrate and explore three major themes: the development of the Russian state and Russian society, in the years when Russia was changing from a minor power on the European periphery to a major actor on the continental stage; the influence of western ideas and western thought on Russian politics and culture; and the impact of the Enlightenment on Russia. This is a substantial contribution not just to the history of Russia, but to early modern Europe generally.

Author : Ian O'Donnell
Publisher : Clarendon Studies in Criminolo
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Law
ISBN : 0199684480

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Prisoners, Solitude, and Time by Ian O'Donnell Pdf

Examining two overlapping aspects of the prison experience that, despite their central importance, have not attracted the scholarly attention they deserve, this book assesses both the degree to which prisoners can withstand the rigours of solitude and how they experience the passing of time. In particular, it looks at how they deal with the potentially overwhelming prospect of a long, or even indefinite, period behind bars. While the deleterious effects of penal isolation are well known, little systematic attention has been given to the factors associated with surviving, and even triumphing over, prolonged exposure to solitary confinement. Through a re-examination of the roles of silence and separation in penal policy, and by contrasting the prisoner experience with that of individuals who have sought out institutional solitariness (for example as members of certain religious orders), and others who have found themselves held in solitary confinement although they committed no crime (such as hostages and some political prisoners), Prisoners, Solitude, and Time seeks to assess the impact of long-term isolation and the rationality of such treatment. In doing so, it aims to stimulate interest in a somewhat neglected aspect of the prisoner's psychological world. The book focuses on an aspect of the prison experience - time, its meanderings, measures, and meanings - that is seldom considered by academic commentators. Building upon prisoner narratives, academic critiques, official publications, personal communications, field visits, administrative statistics, reports of campaigning bodies, and other data, it presents a new framework for understanding the prison experience. The author concludes with a series of reflections on hope, the search for meaning, posttraumatic growth, and the art of living.

Author : Zakhar Prilepin
Publisher : Glagoslav Publications
Page : 1055 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781912894802

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The Monastery by Zakhar Prilepin Pdf

The late 1920s... Convicted of murdering his father, Artiom Goriainov is serving a sentence of several years on the Solovki Archipelago. Artiom is a strong young man who survives all facets of the hell that is the Soviet camps: hunger, cold, betrayal, the death of friends, a failed escape attempt and a love affair. Unlike the many political prisoners at Solovki, he has no strong convictions. He is an everyman who, like the Virgil of Solovki, simply narrates what is happening in front of his eyes. His only motivation is to survive. Founded in the 15th century on an archipelago in the White Sea, from 1923 the monastery became a “camp of special designation,” the foundation stone of the Soviet GULAG system. The novel describes a period when Solovki was being converted from a re-education camp for “socially damaging elements” into what eventually became a mass labor camp. The notion of a Utopia for “forging new human beings,” complete with a library, athletic events, and research laboratories, eventually mutated into a hell of despotism and brutality. Published with the support of the Institute for Literary Translation, Russia

Author : Bernadette Flanagan,Beverly Lanzetta
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781630870027

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Embracing Solitude by Bernadette Flanagan,Beverly Lanzetta Pdf

Embracing Solitude focuses on the interior turn of monasticism and scans the Christian tradition for women who have made this turn in various epochs and circumstances. New Monasticism is a movement assuming diverse forms in response to the turn to classical spiritual sources for guidance about living spiritual commitment with integrity and authenticity today. Genuine spiritual seeking requires the cultivation of an inner disposition to return to the room of the heart. The lessons explored in this book from women spiritual entrepreneurs across the centuries will benefit contemporay New Monastics--both women and men. The accounts will inspire, challenge, and guide those who follow in the footsteps of the renowned spiritual innovators profiled here.

Author : Matt Tenney
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781118868461

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Serve to Be Great by Matt Tenney Pdf

Do you aspire to be a more effective leader who guides your team or organization to higher levels of lasting success? Would you like to look forward to each day and know that you are having a positive impact on the world around you? This is possible for everyone, regardless of your title or position. In fact, Serve to Be Great: Leadership Lessons from a Prison, a Monastery, and a Boardroom will train you to make this a reality. Although it’s not an easy process, it is a worthwhile one. By making a shift in your approach to leadership, you can become a highly effective leader who enjoys your work and makes the world a better place. The shift is simply a matter of gradually becoming more focused on how you can serve others and increase your capacity to do so. Being an extraordinary leader does not require a MBA or PhD. The reality is that anyone can be a great leader. Author Matt Tenney has survived – and thrived – in situations where most people would have been quickly broken. In Serve to Be Great, he offers his life experiences and unique insights to help leaders apply the powerful principles of servant leadership. Servant leaders are not weak or timid. Motivated by the aspiration to serve, they achieve true power by empowering others to achieve excellence. This is a practical guide to becoming a leader people want to follow. By shifting focus from short-term gain to serving others, leaders can create great workplace cultures that deliver superior, long-term results. Serve to Be Great is the perfect playbook for realizing the ultimate in personal and business success. In keeping with the spirit in which Serve to Be Great was written, all author proceeds from the sale of the book will be donated to charity.

Author : Monika Fludernik
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 768 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192577610

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Metaphors of Confinement by Monika Fludernik Pdf

Metaphors of Confinement: The Prison in Fact, Fiction, and Fantasy offers a historical survey of imaginings of the prison as expressed in carceral metaphors in a range of texts about imprisonment from Antiquity to the present as well as non-penal situations described as confining or restrictive. These imaginings coalesce into a 'carceral imaginary' that determines the way we think about prisons, just as social debates about punishment and criminals feed into the way carceral imaginary develops over time. Examining not only English-language prose fiction but also poetry and drama from the Middle Ages to postcolonial, particularly African, literature, the book juxtaposes literary and non-literary contexts and contrasts fictional and nonfictional representations of (im)prison(ment) and discussions about the prison as institution and experiential reality. It comments on present-day trends of punitivity and foregrounds the ethical dimensions of penal punishment. The main argument concerns the continuity of carceral metaphors through the centuries despite historical developments that included major shifts in policy (such as the invention of the penitentiary). The study looks at selected carceral metaphors, often from two complementary perspectives, such as the home as prison or the prison as home, or the factory as prison and the prison as factory. The case studies present particularly relevant genres and texts that employ these metaphors, often from a historical perspective that analyses development through different periods.

Author : Arthur Griffiths
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Crime
ISBN : UCAL:$B21668

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Secrets of the Prison-house: pt. IV. Types of prisoners. pt. V. Escapes. pt. VI. Juvenile crime. pt. VII. General conclusions by Arthur Griffiths Pdf

Author : Arthur Griffiths
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Crime
ISBN : NYPL:33433067379564

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pt. IV. Types of prisoners. pt. V. Escapes. pt. VI. Juvenile crime. pt. VII. General conclusions by Arthur Griffiths Pdf

Author : Jane Brox
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 9780544702486

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Silence by Jane Brox Pdf

Offers a history of silence as a powerful shaper of the human mind, specifically in Eastern State Penitentiary and the monastic world of Medieval Europe.

Author : Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 752 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780062941664

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The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 2] by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn Pdf

“BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY.” —Time Volume 2 of the Nobel Prize-winner’s towering masterpiece: the story of Solzhenitsyn's entrance into the Soviet prison camps, where he would remain for nearly a decade. Features a new foreword by Anne Applebaum. “The greatest and most powerful single indictment of a political regime ever leveled in modern times.” —George F. Kennan “It is impossible to name a book that had a greater effect on the political and moral consciousness of the late twentieth century.” —David Remnick, The New Yorker “Solzhenitsyn’s masterpiece. . . . The Gulag Archipelago helped create the world we live in today.” —Anne Applebaum, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Gulag: A History, from the foreword

Author : Scott Christianson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015062465771

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Notorious Prisons by Scott Christianson Pdf

An inside look at the world's most feared institutions, from ancient and medieval up to the Bangkok Hilton and Abu Ghraib.

Author : Gustaaf Houtman
Publisher : ILCAA
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Buddhism
ISBN : 9784872977486

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Mental Culture in Burmese Crisis Politics by Gustaaf Houtman Pdf

An examination of the current political crisis in Burma, and in particular its Buddhist and socio-psychological aspects.