More infantie a tergo corporis emendari: Violence and discipline in Hispanic school contexts (4th-12th centuries)

Abstract

This article remarks the importance of ius puniendi applied in a comparative way through categories of academic disciple and slave, like appears in the Liber Iudiciorum VI, 5, 8, controlling punishment for both social categories, as a discipline rule. The importance of childhood as an irrational period of individual formation entails the right to punish with physical punishments like slave´s owners. From this first idea it will set the main references about physical punishment in scholar and domestic child contexts, over all in early medieval Hispanic world from Peristefanon of Prudentius (4^th century) until remembrances of Ordoño of Celanova (late 12^th century).