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The Roman philosopher Boethius wrote The Consolation of Philosophy in 524 AD (image from a 1385 manuscript) while imprisoned. Prison literature is the literary genre of works written by an author in unwilling confinement, such as a prison, jail or house arrest. [1]
The prisons were filthy, poorly ventilated, and were underground. [17] The prisons would be divided into outer and inner areas. The inner parts of the prison were more secure and darker. Prison would not have had individual cells. They would have had groups of prisoners chained together in different rooms. Prisons would often times be very ...
This list may not reflect recent changes. Prison literature; 0–9. The 120 Days of Sodom; A. Aline and Valcour; Daniil Andreyev; Appeal to the People; An ...
All of Zweig's books published up to 1933 were banned by the Nazis in that same year. [125] Works Sigmund Freud: 1901–1933 Non-fiction All of Freud's books published up to 1933 were banned by the Nazis in that same year. [125] The Iron Heel: Jack London: 1908 Novel Banned by the Nazis along with two other London novels, Martin Eden and The ...
Ancient Roman victims of crime (1 C, 2 P) Pages in category "Crime and punishment in ancient Rome" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total.
An ancient fifth-century Roman prison discovered in Greece contains harrowing graffiti on the prison floor. Located in Corinth, Greece, the Greek-language pleas that remain etched into the prison ...
The Mamertine Prison (Italian: Carcere Mamertino), in antiquity the Tullianum, was a prison (carcer) with a dungeon located in the Comitium in ancient Rome. It is said to have been built in the 7th century BC and was situated on the northeastern slope of the Capitoline Hill , facing the Curia and the imperial forums of Nerva , Vespasian , and ...
A complete list of the authors and writings present in the subsequent editions of the index are listed in J. Martinez de Bujanda, Index Librorum Prohibitorum, 1600–1966, Geneva, 2002. The Index includes entries for single or multiple works by an author, all works by an author in a given genre or dealing with a given topic.