{"product_id":"ancient-mediterranean-incarceration-hardcover","title":"Ancient Mediterranean Incarceration - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMatthew D. C. Larsen\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eMark Letteney\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e This book examines spaces, practices, and ideologies of incarceration in the ancient Mediterranean basin from 300 BCE to 600 CE. Analyzing a wide range of sources--including legal texts, archaeological findings, documentary evidence, and visual materials--Matthew D. C. Larsen and Mark Letteney argue that prisons were integral to the social, political, and economic fabric of ancient societies. \u003ci\u003eAncient Mediterranean Incarceration\u003c\/i\u003e traces a long history of carceral practices, considering ways in which the institution of prison has been fundamentally intertwined with issues of class, ethnicity, gender, and imperialism. By foregrounding the voices and experiences of the imprisoned, Larsen and Letteney demonstrate the extraordinary durability of carceral structures across time and call for a new historical consciousness around contemporary practices of incarceration.\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn instant classic and an astonishing resource that will forever change how we think about the history of incarceration.--Candida Moss, author of \u003ci\u003eGod's Ghostwriters: Enslaved Christians and the Making of the Bible\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Larsen and Letteney's work--centrally concerned with rendering the lived experience of ancient incarceration--both uncovers a hidden past and provides a roadmap for historians, criminologists, and practical reformers alike to find, listen to, and recenter too-often silenced voices.\"--Keramet Reiter, author of \u003ci\u003e23\/7: Pelican Bay Prison and the Rise of Longterm Solitary Confinement\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Drawing on an array of documentary and archaeological sources to argue that incarceration, broadly defined, was an essential instrument of coercion in the ancient Mediterranean world, Larsen and Letteney have given us nothing less than a disturbing new framework for understanding the pervasiveness of institutional violence and social control in classical antiquity.\"--Carlos F. Nore?a, author of \u003ci\u003eImperial Ideals in the Roman West: Representation, Circulation, Power\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMatthew D. C. Larsen\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of New Testament and Early Christian History and Archaeology at the University of Copenhagen. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eMark Letteney \u003c\/b\u003eis the Carol Thomas Professor of Ancient History at the University of Washington. \u003cbr\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 258\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.63 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 12, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45520867557478,"sku":"9780520422605","price":184.84,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/RR20ZyLtKq9780520422605.webp?v=1776469832","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/ancient-mediterranean-incarceration-hardcover","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}