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This open access book analyses the practice of banishment and what it can tell us about the values of late medieval society concerning morally acceptable behavi

This book offers a reconstruction and interpretation of banishment in the final era of a unified Roman Empire, 284-476 CE. Author Daniel Washburn argues that ex

Banishing troublesome and deviant people from society was common in the early modern period. Many European countries removed their paupers, convicted criminals,

Lanka, Ceylon, Sarandib: merely three disparate names for a single island? Perhaps. Yet the three diverge in the historical echoes, literary cultures, maps and