Table of Contents

Contents: Preface; Introduction; The terror of the Lord; The intermediate state; Building the penitentiary; Adam's doom; The man in the wooden cage; The measure of sin; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

About the Author

Laurie Throness is a Canadian scholar who completed a PhD in History at Cambridge, following on his degrees in public policy and biblical studies.

Reviews

’Exacting standards of scholarship underpin this work and this is an important new contribution to an act of Parliament but more generally to explaining a political and religious milieu set upon the saving of souls on Protestant terms.’ Parergon ’This meticulous and scholarly publication provides a wealth of primary evidence. ... [it is] an important contribution to comprehending the mental frameworks that led to the development of the penitentiary and the modern prison.’ American Historical Review