Mabillon’s Public Concern for Imprisoned Brother Denis
Mabillon advocated only official visitors for imprisoned monks, but also communicated as a friend with the imprisoned Brother Denis.
Topic Collection: Mabillon
The seventeenth-century French cleric Jean Mabillon criticized the harsh regime of monastic penal imprisonment, but didn’t value ordinary communication with imprisoned monks.
Monastic Influence in Penal Policy Imagination
Perhaps from Mabillon’s penal essay, penal historians have projected silence and isolation in new 19th-century prisons back to monastic precedents.