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3 Michel Foucault, Discipline and punish: the birth of the prison, trans. Alan Sheridan (New York, 1979), 160. A ‘total institution’ was seminally defined by Erving Goffman, in Asylums: essays on the social situation of mental patients and other inmates (Garden City, NY, 1961), xiii, as ‘a place of residence and work where a large number of like-situated individuals, cut off from the wider society for an appreciable period of time, together lead an enclosed, formally administered round of life’.

4 On medieval incarceration see Martino Beltrani-Scalia, Sul governo e sulla riforma delle carceri in Italia: saggio storico e teorico (Turin, 1868), 211–348; Bertoletti, A., ‘Prigioni e prigioneri in Mantova dal secolo XIII al secolo XIX’, Bullettino ufficiale della Direzione Generale delle Carceri 17 (1887), 51–70Google Scholar, 163–82; Batiffol, Louis, ‘Le Châtelet de Paris vers 1400’, Revue Historique 61–63 (1896–1897), 225–64Google Scholar; 225–35; 42–55, 266–83; Gotthold Bohne, Die Freiheitsstrafe in den italienischen Stadtrechten des 12.–16. Jahrhunderts, 2 vols. (Leipzig, 1922–1925); Grand, Roger, ‘La prison et la notion d'emprisonnement dans l'ancien droit’, Revue Historique de Droit Français et Étranger, 4th ser., 19–20 (1940–1941), 58–87Google Scholar; Porteau-Bitker, Annik, ‘L'emprisonnement dans le droit laïque du moyen âge’, Revue Historique de Droit Français et Étranger 46 (1968), 211–45Google Scholar, 398–428; Ralph B. Pugh, Imprisonment in medieval England (Cambridge, 1968); Mirielle Vincent-Cassy, ‘Prison et châtiments à la fin du Moyen Âge’, in Les marginaux et les exclus dans l'histoire (Paris, 1979), 262–74; Gonthier, Nicole, ‘Prisons et prisonniers à Lyon aux XIVe et XVe siècles’, Mémoires de la Société pour l'Histoire du Droit et des Institutions des Anciens Pays Bourguignons, Comtois et Romands 39 (1982), 15–30Google Scholar; M. Small, Carola, ‘Prisoners at the Castellany of Artois in the early fourteenth century’, Histoire Sociale – Social History 26 (1993), 345–72Google Scholar; Manikowska, Halina, ‘The Florentine communal prison – Le Stinche – in the fourteenth century’, Acta Poloniae Historica 71 (1995), 133–60Google Scholar; Edward M. Peters, ‘Prison before the prison: the ancient and medieval worlds’, in The Oxford history of the prison: the practice of punishment in western society, ed. N. Morris and D. J. Rothman (Oxford, 1995), 3–43; James Given, Inquisition and medieval society: power, discipline and resistance in Languedoc (Ithaca and London, 1997); and Jean Dunbabin, Captivity and imprisonment in medieval Europe, 1000–1300 (New York, 2002).

5 Geltner, The medieval prison, esp. chapter two. On the ruralization and disguises of modern prisons see William G. Nagel, The new red barn: a critical look at the modern American prison (New York, 1973), 47–9; The Home Office, New directions in prison design: report of a Home Office study of new generation prisons in the U.S.A. (London, 1985), 8–19; Mike Davis, City of quartz: excavating the future of Los Angeles (New York, 1992), 253–7.

6 See respectively Ginevra Niccolini di Camugliano, The chronicles of a Florentine family, 1200–1470 (London, 1933), 48; Paola Foschi, ‘I palazzi del Comune di Bologna nel Duecento’, in Bologna: Re Enzo e il suo mito: atti della Giornata di studio, 11 giugno 2000, ed. Antonio Ivan Pini and Anna Laura Trombetti Budriesi (Bologna, 2001), 94–100; ASS, Consiglio Generale [=CG], Deliberazioni [=Del.] 104, fols. 43r–44v (17 February 1327); ASF, Provvisioni, Registri 26, 118 (12 November 1333); and Moranvillé, H., ‘Note sur les prisons à la fin du XIVe siècle’, Bulletin de la Société d'Histoire de Paris 21 (1894), 74Google Scholar.

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8 Victor W. Turner, The ritual process: structure and anti-structure (Chicago, 1969), 95, and ‘Variations on a theme of liminality’, in Secular ritual, ed. Sally F. Moore and Barbara G. Meyerhoff (Assen/Amsterdam, 1977), 36–52.

9 See Edward Sagarin, Deviants and deviancy (New York, 1975); David Downes and Paul Rock, Understanding deviance, 5th edn (Oxford, 2007).

10 Respectively, Lapo Mazzei, Lettere di un notaro a un mercante del secolo XIV con altre lettere e documenti, ed. Cesare Guasti, 2 vols. (Florence, 1880), 1:61, 2:343; N. Tommaseo, Della bellezza educatrice (Venice, 1838), 313; Curzio Mazzi ed., Il Burchiello: saggio di studi sulla sua vita e sulla sua poesia (Bologna, 1879), 69; Domenico M. Manni, Le veglie piacevoli, 2nd edn, 8 vols. (Florence, 1815–1816), 2:38; Lodovico Frati and Albano Sorbelli eds., Matthaei de Griffonibus memoriale historicum de rebus bononiensium (Città di Castello, 1902), 65–6. Literate activity in Venice is documented in Ferruccio Zago ed., Consiglio dei Dieci: deliberazioni miste, 3 vols. (Venice, 1962–1993) [=X Zago], Reg. VI, no. 570 (3:117). And see Maria Luisa Meneghetti, ‘Scrivere in carcere nel medioevo’, in Studi di filologia e letteratura italiani in onore di Maria Picchio Simonelli, ed. Pietro Frassica (Alessandria, 1993), 185–99; René Menage, ‘Deux poètes en prison: Maître Jean Régnier e le prisonnier desconforté de Loches’, in Exclus et systemes d’exclusion dans la litterature et la civilisation médiévales (Aix-en-Provence, 1978), 239–49; and Linne F. Mooney and Mary-Jo Arn eds., The Kingis Quair and other prison poems (Kalamazoo, MI, 2005).

11 C. D. Hassler ed., Fratris Felicis Fabri Evagatorium in Terrae Sanctae, Arabiae et Egypti Peregrinationem, 3 vols. (Stuttgart, 1843–1849), 2:409–10.

12 Five hundred years of Venetian prison graffiti are being documented by Prof. Giandomenico Romanelli, Director of the Musei Civici di Venezia.

13 ASF, Atti dell'Escutore degli Ordinamenti di Giustizia [=AE] 501, fols. 14v (11 May 1367), 18v–19r (2 July 1367); 538, fols. 4v–5r (19 May 1368); 540, fol. 21v (4 April 1368) (this series contains the protocols of Le Stinche's supervisors); ASF, Soprastanti alle Stinche [=SS], Entrata e Uscita [=EU] 382, fol. 4r (30 October 1367); 388, fol. 1r (4 October 1376) (this is the prison's financial archive); X Zago, Reg. VI, nos. 406 (3:89), 443–5 (3:95), 599 (3:121); ASV, Maggior Consiglio, Deliberazioni [=MC Delib.] 20 (Liber Novella), fol. 404v (6 June 1382).

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15 ASF, Statuti 1355, L. I, R. LIV, fol. 45v.

16 ASF, AE 489, fol. 12r–v (27 November 1366); 538, fols. 19v–20r (29 August 1368); 674, fol. 32r (4 March 1373).

17 ASV, Avogaria di Comun [=AC] 3644, Reg. 1, fol. 8v (27 October 1378).

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21 ASF, AE 1401, fol. 3r (7 May 1400): ‘irato animo et malo modo multas et varias rissas ac rumores et percussiones, tam manu vacuis quam cum ferro, videlicet percutiendo et vulnerendo unus alterum’.

22 See Lee H. Bowker, Prison victimization (New York, 1980).

23 ASL, AnzianFi avanti la libertà 2, fol. 63 (17 September, 1330): ‘ne ipsi carcerati ultra debitum et convenientum modum graventur, vel contra eos fieri aliqua extortio, intolerabilis iniqua vel iniusta’. And see ASPa, Comune 10, fols. 31v–32r (1 December 1388), 65v–67v (4 July 1395); 36, fols. 5v–6r (3 November 1317), 14r (1 October 1323?).

24 For the prison's ground plan see Becchi, Sulle Stinche di Firenze e su'nuovi edifizi eretti in quel luogo (Florence, 1839), pl. II. A reconstruction is in Geltner, The medieval prison, Appendix 3.

25 ASF, AE 573, fol. 18r (26 March 1369).

26 Respectively, ASV, MC Delib., 20 (Liber Novella), fol. 404v (6 June 1382); ASL, Sentenze e bandi 7, unnumbered fols. (5 April 1337); and Statuta Communis Parmae ab anno MCCLXVI ad circiter MCCCIV (Parma, 1857), 174.

27 Emilio Paolo Vicini ed., Respublica Mutinensis (1306–1307), 2 vols. (Milan, 1929–1932), 1:185.

28 ASF, AE 148, fol. 22v (23 July 1350).

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30 Sacchetti, Il trecentonovelle, CXXXIX (361–2).

31 Marek M. Kaminski, Games prisoners play: the tragicomic worlds of Polish prison (Princeton, 2004), 41–6, 134–8. And see Victor F. Nelson, Prison days and nights (Boston, 1933), 158–60, 164–5; Piri Thomas, Down these mean streets (New York, 1967), 267; Edward Buckner, The animal factory (New York, 1977), 12; Jack Henry Abbott, In the belly of the beast: letters from prison (London, 1982), 79; Jimmy A. Lerner, You got nothing coming: notes from a prison fish (New York, 2002), 152–6.

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39 ASB, Curia del Podestà, Sindacato, Reg. 1286 I/1, fol. 31r (28 March 1286). And see Hermann U. Kantorowicz, Albertus Gandinus und das Strafrecht der Scholastik (Berlin, 1907), nos. 44, 134 (270–7, 367–70). On Arras, see Small, ‘Prisoners at the Castellany of Artois’, 351, 365–6.

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42 Human Rights Watch, Prison conditions in the United States (New York, 1991), 58–60. In the course of one year, 41 per cent of the Trenton inmates studied by Sykes (The society of captives, 65) received not a single visitor. Visitations rates in 1980s Canada, as tracked by Zamble and Porporino (Coping, behavior and adaptation, 81–2), are marginally higher.

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49 Alexander Murray, Suicide in the middle ages, 3 vols. (Oxford and New York, 1998–), 1:154–60, 185–91, 295–304.

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57 ‘Prisonization’ was originally coined by Clemmer (The prison community, 300). See also Wheeler, ‘Socialization in correctional communities’, 697–712.

58 Sir Alexander Paterson, member of the UK Prison Commission between 1922 and 1947, quoted in Howard Jones et al., Open prisons (London, 1977), 5.

59 See above, nn. 43–4.

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