A Large Scale Slave Society Of The Early Middle Ages
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A Large Scale Slave Society Of The Early Middle Ages
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Author : Carl I. Hammer
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-09-08
A Large Scale Slave Society Of The Early Middle Ages written by Carl I. Hammer and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-08 with History categories.
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
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Author : Alice Rio
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2017-03-30
Slavery After Rome 500 1100 written by Alice Rio and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-30 with History categories.
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 revitalised 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 labour over others in different times and places, and is it possible, underneath all this diversity, to identify some coherent trajectories of historical change?
Slavery In Medieval And Early Modern Iberia
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Author : William D. Phillips, Jr.
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2013-11-14
Slavery In Medieval And Early Modern Iberia written by William D. Phillips, Jr. and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-14 with History categories.
The enslaved population of medieval Iberia composed only a small percentage of the general populace at any given point, and slave labor was not essential to the regional economy during the period. Yet slaves were present in Iberia from the beginning of recorded history until the early modern era, and the regulations and norms for slavery and servitude shifted as time passed and kingdoms rose and fell. The Romans brought their imperially sanctioned forms of slavery to the Iberian peninsula, and these were adapted by successive Christian kingdoms during the Middle Ages. The Muslim conquest of Iberia introduced new ideas about slavery and effected an increase in slave trade. During the later Middle Ages and the early modern period, slave owners in Christian Spain and Portugal maintained slaves at home, frequently captives taken in wars and sea raids, and exported their slave systems to colonies across the Atlantic. Slavery in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia provides a magisterial survey of the many forms of bound labor in Iberia from ancient times to the decline of slavery in the eighteenth century. William D. Phillips, Jr., examines the pecuniary and legal terms of slavery from purchase to manumission. He pays particular attention to the conditions of life for the enslaved, which, in a religiously diverse society, differed greatly for Muslims and Christians as well as for men and women. This sweeping narrative will become the definitive account of slavery in a place and period that deeply influenced the forms of forced servitude that shaped the New World.
Medieval Slavery And Liberation
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Author : Pierre Dockès
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 1982
Medieval Slavery And Liberation written by Pierre Dockès and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982 with Slavery categories.
Framing The Early Middle Ages
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Author : Chris Wickham
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2006-11-30
Framing The Early Middle Ages written by Chris Wickham and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-11-30 with History categories.
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.
The Archaeology Of Slavery In Early Medieval Northern Europe
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Author : Felix Biermann
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2021-11-18
The Archaeology Of Slavery In Early Medieval Northern Europe written by Felix Biermann and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-18 with Social Science categories.
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 And Manumission In Fourteenth Century Palermo
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Author : Jack Goodman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017
Slavery And Manumission In Fourteenth Century Palermo written by Jack Goodman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Freedmen categories.
Fourteenth-century Palermo provides an important setting for the examination of slave populations in the urban Mediterranean world. The large-scale use of slaves in the Middle Ages was a Mediterranean phenomenon. Slaves, drawn from all corners of this ancient sea, formed an integral part of trade and life in the Mediterranean environment. These slaves--Muslims, Greeks, and Tartars--were investments in capital, objects of sexual exploitation by masters, and unfortunate individuals torn from the regions and societies of their birth to become possessions in foreign lands. The dissertation, utilizing a variety of source types including unpublished notarial registers from the State Archives of Palermo, analyzes slave-holding, manumission, and the lives of freed persons in this important city and places Palermitan slavery among other case studies of medieval Mediterranean slavery. The study tests and argues against an interpretation of medieval slavery which treats these individuals as cherished household servants in a system that was more familial than mercenary, and replaces it with one that acknowledges the difficulties and hardships that slaves endured. Slaves proved themselves to be valuable investments in labor and capital, and should not be considered solely in terms of luxury markets and status symbols. Manumission, fundamental to any slave system, came in two forms: conditional and unconditional. Despite common assumptions about the spiritual benefit of manumission, a majority of Palermitan masters used the conditional liberation of slaves to further their financial and personal needs, in addition to potential spiritual rewards. The manumission process reveals many other aspects of the slave experience, including loose ties to former masters and efforts by members of the same ethnic and religious populations to provide assistance to those like themselves. Finally, freed persons, often neglected in studies of medieval slavery, receive substantial coverage which provides understanding to the opportunities and constraints placed upon former slaves by Palermitan society due to their freed status and geographic and ethnic origins.
Introduction To Medieval Europe 300 1500
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Author : Wim Blockmans
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2023-08-07
Introduction To Medieval Europe 300 1500 written by Wim Blockmans and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-08-07 with History categories.
Introduction to Medieval Europe 300–1500 provides a comprehensive survey of this complex and varied formative period of European history within a global context, covering themes as diverse as barbarian migrations, the impact of Christianisation, the formation of nations and states, the emergence of an expansionist commercial economy, the growth of cities, the Crusades, the effects of plague and the intellectual and cultural dynamism of the Middle Ages. The book explores the driving forces behind the formation of medieval society and the directions in which it developed and changed. In doing this, the authors cover a wide geographic expanse, including Western interactions with the Byzantine Empire, the Islamic World, North Africa and Asia. This fourth edition has been fully updated to reflect moves toward teaching the Middle Ages in a global context and contains a wealth of new features and topics that help to bring this fascinating era to life, including: West Europe’s catching up through intensive exchange with the Mediterranean Islamic world growth of autonomous cities and civic liberties emergence of an empirical and rational worldview climate change and intercontinental pandemics European exchange with Africa and Asia chapter introductions to support students’ understanding of the topics a fully updated glossary to give modern students the confidence and language to discuss medieval history Clear and stimulating, the fourth edition of Introduction to Medieval Europe is the ideal companion to studying the entirety of medieval history at undergraduate level.
What Is A Slave Society
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Author : Noel Emmanuel Lenski
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2018-05-10
What Is A Slave Society written by Noel Emmanuel Lenski and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-10 with History categories.
Interrogates the traditional binary 'slave societies'/'societies with slaves' as a paradigm for understanding the global practice of slaveholding.
Thraldom
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Author : Stefan Brink
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2021-09-10
Thraldom written by Stefan Brink and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-10 with Social Science categories.
Nordic slavery is an elusive phenomenon, with few similarities to the systematic exploitation of slaves in households, mines, and amphitheaters in the ancient Mediterranean or the widespread slavery at American plantations during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Scandinavians in the early Middle Ages lived in a society foreign to us, characterized by different and shifting social statuses. A person could be at once socially respected and unfree. It was possible to hand oneself over as a slave to someone else in exchange for protection and food. One could be sentenced temporarily to enslavement for some offense but later purchase his manumission. Young men could enter into a kind of "contract" with a king or chieftain to join his retinue, accepting his authority, patronage, and jurisdiction, while at the same time making a quick social elevation. Slavery was widespread all over Europe during the early Middle Ages and Scandinavians, as Stefan Brink illustrates in this book, became a major player in the northern slave trade. However, the Vikings were not particularly interested in taking slaves to Scandinavia; instead, their "business model" seems to have been to raid, abduct, and then sell captured people at major slave markets. Their goal was not people but silver. Using a wide variety of source materials, including archaeology, runes, Icelandic sagas, early law, place names, personal names, and not least etymological and semantic analyses of the terminology of slaves, Thraldom provides the most thorough survey of slavery in the Viking Age.