A Large-Scale Slave Society of the Early Middle Ages
Title | A Large-Scale Slave Society of the Early Middle Ages PDF eBook |
Author | Carl I. Hammer |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 211 |
Release | 2017-09-08 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1351962329 |
This book is divided into three parts. The first two chapters provide an introduction to the historical problem of early medieval slavery and a short history of Bavaria to provide background information. The next six chapters deal with a series of topics, which provide a complete historical overview of the institutions and conditions of slavery. This historical analysis is based upon an extensive collection of primary documents, each referenced in the text as it occurs in the discussion. These documents are then provided in English translation in the final three chapters of the volume.
Slavery After Rome, 500-1100
Title | Slavery After Rome, 500-1100 PDF eBook |
Author | Alice Rio |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 298 |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0198704054 |
Slavery After Rome, 500-1100 offers a substantially new interpretation of what happened to slavery in Western Europe in the centuries that followed the fall of the Roman Empire. The periods at either end of the early middle ages are associated with iconic forms of unfreedom: Roman slavery at one end; at the other, the serfdom of the twelfth century and beyond, together with, in Southern Europe, a revitalized urban chattel slavery dealing chiefly in non-Christians. How and why this major change took place in the intervening period has been a long-standing puzzle. This study picks up the various threads linking this transformation across the centuries, and situates them within the full context of what slavery and unfreedom were being used for in the early middle ages. This volume adopts a broad comparative perspective, covering different regions of Western Europe over six centuries, to try to answer the following questions: who might become enslaved and why? What did this mean for them, and for their lords? What made people opt for certain ways of exploiting unfree labor over others in different times and places, and is it possible, underneath all this diversity, to identify some coherent trajectories of historical change?
Medieval Slavery and Liberation
Title | Medieval Slavery and Liberation PDF eBook |
Author | Pierre Dockès |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
Pages | 291 |
Release | 1982 |
Genre | Slavery |
ISBN | 9780416339703 |
Framing the Early Middle Ages
Title | Framing the Early Middle Ages PDF eBook |
Author | Chris Wickham |
Publisher | OUP Oxford |
Pages | 1019 |
Release | 2006-11-30 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 019162263X |
The Roman empire tends to be seen as a whole whereas the early middle ages tends to be seen as a collection of regional histories, roughly corresponding to the land-areas of modern nation states. As a result, early medieval history is much more fragmented, and there have been few convincing syntheses of socio-economic change in the post-Roman world since the 1930s. In recent decades, the rise of early medieval archaeology has also transformed our source-base, but this has not been adequately integrated into analyses of documentary history in almost any country. In Framing the Early Middle Ages Chris Wickham combines documentary and archaeological evidence to create a comparative history of the period 400-800. His analysis embraces each of the regions of the late Roman and immediately post-Roman world, from Denmark to Egypt. The book concentrates on classic socio-economic themes, state finance, the wealth and identity of the aristocracy, estate management, peasant society, rural settlement, cities, and exchange. These give only a partial picture of the period, but they frame and explain other developments. Earlier syntheses have taken the development of a single region as 'typical', with divergent developments presented as exceptions. This book takes all different developments as typical, and aims to construct a synthesis based on a better understanding of difference and the reasons for it.
Slaves and Warriors in Medieval Britain and Ireland, 800 -1200
Title | Slaves and Warriors in Medieval Britain and Ireland, 800 -1200 PDF eBook |
Author | David Wyatt |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 480 |
Release | 2009-04-24 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9047428773 |
Modern sensibilities have clouded historical views of slavery, perhaps more so than any other medieval social institution. Anachronistic economic rationales and notions about the progression of European civilisation have immeasurably distorted our view of slavery in the medieval context. As a result historians have focussed their efforts upon explaining the disappearance of this medieval institution rather than seeking to understand it. This book highlights the extreme cultural/social significance of slavery for the societies of medieval Britain and Ireland c. 800-1200. Concentrating upon the lifestyle, attitudes and motivations of the slave-holders and slave-raiders, it explores the violent activities and behavioural codes of Britain and Ireland’s warrior-centred societies, illustrating the extreme significance of the institution of slavery for constructions of power, ethnic identity and gender.
The Archaeology of Slavery in Early Medieval Northern Europe
Title | The Archaeology of Slavery in Early Medieval Northern Europe PDF eBook |
Author | Felix Biermann |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Pages | 190 |
Release | 2021-11-18 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 3030732916 |
This volume is the first comprehensive study of the material imprint of slavery in early medieval Europe. While written sources attest to the ubiquity of slavery and slave trade in early medieval British Isles, Scandinavia and Slavic lands, it is still difficult to find material traces of this reality, other than the hundreds of thousands of Islamic coins paid in exchange for the northern European slaves. This volume offers the first structured reflection on how to bridge this gap. It reviews the types of material evidence that can be associated with the institution of slavery and the slave trade in early medieval northern Europe, from individual objects (such as e.g. shackles) to more comprehensive landscape approaches. The book is divided into four sections. The first presents the analytical tools developed in Africa and prehistoric Europe to identify and describe social phenomena associated with slavery and the slave trade. The following three section review the three main cultural zones of early medieval northern Europe: the British Isles, Scandinavia, and Slavic central Europe. The contributions offer methodological reflections on the concept of the archaeology of slavery. They emphasize that the material record, by its nature, admits multiple interpretations. More broadly, this book comes at a time when the history of slavery is being integrated into academic syllabi in most western countries. The collection of studies contributes to a more nuanced perspective on this important and controversial topic. This volume appeals to multiple audiences interested in comparative and global studies of slavery, and will constitute the point of reference for future debates.
Slavery in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia
Title | Slavery in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia PDF eBook |
Author | William D. Phillips |
Publisher | University of Pennsylvania Press |
Pages | 272 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0812244915 |
Slavery in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia provides a sweeping survey of the many forms of bound labor in Iberia from ancient times to the decline of slavery in the eighteenth century.