Imprisonment in the Medieval Religious Imagination, c. 1150-1400

MEGAN CASSIDY-WELCH is ARC Future Fellow in the School of Philosophical, Historical and International Studies, Monash University, Australia. She has taught Medieval History at the University of Tasmania and the University of Melbourne. She is the author of Monastic Spaces and their Meanings: Thirteenth-Century English Cistercian Monasteries (2001) and co-editor (with Peter Sherlock) of Practices of Gender in Medieval and Early Modern Europe (2008) as well as numerous articles on space, memory and religion in the high middle ages.

• List of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction Incarceration of the Body and Liberation of the Spirit Prison Miracles and the Cult of Saints Imprisonment, Memory and Space in the Early Inquisition Didactic Uses of Imprisonment Imprisonment and Freedom in the Lives of Louis IX Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index