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4 janvier 2022
- doi: 10.58079/r91e
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Elena Magli, « For five miles and ten years: The practice of banishment in late medieval Basel », Martial Culture in Medieval Town, ID : 10.58079/r91e
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In July 1387, two brothers named Henman and Burkart Kesseler, up until then living in one of the suburbs of Basel, were ordered to leave Basel and to stay five miles away from the city for ten years. Banishment was a common penalty imposed by the authorities on individual offenders in late medieval European cities. Research labels banishment as a punishment as well as a governmental instrument of safekeeping the community. It could also function as a form of pardon, given instead of corporal...