Philosophies of Imprisonment in Late Antiquity
In order to understand how the conceptual perception of prisons changed with different social groups, one must first understand what prisons were meant to be and what they actually were. Prison structure was governed on logic, with different types of prisons to separate the accused from the condemned. From the structure, scholars can understand the purpose of the prison, and current scholarly debate revolves around the intention of the law-makers.
Making late Roman taxpayers pay: imperial government strategies and practice
Means of enforcement constitute only one factor of a model for late Roman tax collection and this concern with enforcement, in turn, cannot be sepa- rated from the peculiar Roman notions of fiscal justice.