scholarly journals Redemption: The Repayment of Fines and the Reintegration of Exiles

2021 ◽  
pp. 93-124
Author(s):  
Edda Frankot
Keyword(s):  
Final Section ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
Financial Arrangements

AbstractThe second of two main chapters, this analyses the redemption of exiles and what this can tell us about the values of late medieval Kampen society concerning morally acceptable behaviour. The first section concerns the practical aspects around the reintegration of banished individuals from all categories, whereas the second section focuses specifically on the financial arrangements between exiles and magistrates which allowed the former to return to Kampen. The final section discusses the links between debt and morality, in order to establish whether defaulting public debtors were banished because they were considered to have displayed immoral behaviour.

Poeta in Vinculis I

2019 ◽  
pp. 109-170
Author(s):  
Monika Fludernik
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Traumatic Experience ◽  
John Bunyan ◽  
Major Focus ◽  
Thomas More ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
The World ◽  
Psychological Coping

Chapter 2 contrasts the writings of Thomas More and John Bunyan. The chapter foregrounds these authors’ strategies of imaginative and psychological coping, considering how their texts reflect the traumatic experience of incarceration in the imaginative re-enactment of their fiction. The chapter introduces a number of prison tropes besides the WORLD AS PRISON/PRISON AS WORLD metaphor, most prominently in Bunyan the SIN AS PRISON trope. A major focus of the chapter concerns the difficult relationship between fact, fiction, and allegory in the work of the two authors and their contemporaries. A final section of the chapter links Bunyan’s poetry to the tradition of late medieval and early modern prison verse.

scholarly journals Exile: Banishment as a Punitive and Coercive Measure

2021 ◽  
pp. 47-92
Author(s):  
Edda Frankot
Keyword(s):  
Social Status ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Coercive Measure ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
The Town

AbstractThe first of two main chapters, this analyses the exclusion of offenders and what this can tell us about the values of late medieval Kampen society concerning morally acceptable behaviour. This chapter firstly focuses on typologies and quantitative aspects of banishment, such as the number of exiles of various categories. It then discusses the question whether the punishment was mainly used as a punitive or coercive measure, before moving onto the distance and duration of banishments. An important part of this chapter is the discussion of aspects of gender and morality, and of social status, as this provides insights into the values of the town community. Symbolism and ceremony are discussed to establish their role in the application of authority by the magistrates. The final section analyses whether an army of exiles existed beyond Kampen’s walls.

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