Abstract
Monastic detention has existed since the 6tth century, but the transformation of monasteries into prisons and other institution of confinement such as houses of correction, psychiatric hospitals, sanatoriums, asylums etc., arose at a time when the ideas of the Enlightenment were embodied in the society. This was a point of inflection of the pre-modern and modern world. The paradigm shift gradually began, in the 17th century in Western Europe, until the 19th century in the Romanian Principalities. With the secularization of monastic property in 1863, and delayed construction of new prisons, a number of monasteries changed their full function, becoming prisons. The consequences were disastrous: monastic ensembles, most of them of a priceless spiritual, architectural and historical value were in many cases irreversible destroyed and their mission altered.
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