ew accounts survive about nightly late-medieval Basel. Unsurprisingly, the majority of the (literarily) noteworthy events happened during the daytime. Gatherings in the city hall, the trade of goods in the various market squares, craftsmen coming together in guild houses, students attending lessons in the cathedral district, all made the daytime city a bustling place. In the night-time, however, all this action was to come to a halt and the city's inhabitants were to
