Author: Agnes Mathilde WergelandPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Germanic peoples
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Slavery in Germanic Society During the Middle Ages
Author: Agnes Mathilde WergelandPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Germanic peoples
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Incarceration and Slavery in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age
Author: Albrecht ClassenPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1793648298
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 529
Book Description
People in the Middle Ages and the early modern age more often suffered from imprisonment and enslavement than we might have assumed. Incarceration and Slavery in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age approaches these topics from a wide variety of perspectives and demonstrates collectively the great relevance of the issues involved. Both incarceration and slavery were (and continue to be) most painful experiences, and no one was guaranteed exemption from it. High-ranking nobles and royalties were often the victims of imprisonment and, at times, had to wait many years until their ransom was paid. Similarly, slavery existed throughout Christian Europe and in the Arab world. However, while imprisonment occasionally proved to be the catalyst for major writings and creativity, slaves in the Ottoman empire and in Egypt succeeded in rising to the highest position in society (Janissaries, Mamluks, and others).
Slavery After Rome, 500-1100
Author: Alice RioPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198704054
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
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?
Slavery in Árpád-era Hungary in a Comparative Context
Author: Cameron SuttPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004301585
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
In Slavery in Árpád-era Hungary in a Comparative Context, Cameron Sutt examines servile labour in the first three centuries of the Hungarian kingdom and compares it with dependent labour in Carolingian Europe. Such comparative methodology provides a particularly clear view of the nature of dependent labour in both regions. Using legislation as well as charter evidence, Sutt establishes that lay landlords of Árpádian Hungary frequently relied upon slaves to work their land, but the situation in Carolingian areas was much more complex. The use of slave labour in Hungary continued until the end of the thirteenth century when a combination of economic and political factors brought it to an end.
Slavery and Social Death
Author: Orlando PattersonPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674916131
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 407
Book Description
Winner of the Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Award, American Sociological Association Co-Winner of the Ralph J. Bunche Award, American Political Science Association In a work of prodigious scholarship and enormous breadth, which draws on the tribal, ancient, premodern, and modern worlds, Orlando Patterson discusses the internal dynamics of slavery in sixty-six societies over time. These include Greece and Rome, medieval Europe, China, Korea, the Islamic kingdoms, Africa, the Caribbean islands, and the American South. Praise for the previous edition: “Densely packed, closely argued, and highly controversial in its dissent from much of the scholarly conventional wisdom about the function and structure of slavery worldwide.” —Boston Globe “There can be no doubt that this rich and learned book will reinvigorate debates that have tended to become too empirical and specialized. Patterson has helped to set out the direction for the next decades of interdisciplinary scholarship.” —David Brion Davis, New York Review of Books “This is clearly a major and important work, one which will be widely discussed, cited, and used. I anticipate that it will be considered among the landmarks in the study of slavery, and will be read by historians, sociologists, and anthropologists—as well as many other scholars and students.” —Stanley Engerman
A Large-Scale Slave Society of the Early Middle Ages
Author: Carl I. HammerPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351962329
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
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.
The President's Report
Author: University of ChicagoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
1897/98 includes summaries for 1891 to 1897.
German Society at the Close of the Middle Ages
Author: Ernest Belfort BaxPublisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
"German Society at the Close of the Middle Ages" is a historical novel about the German people. The work aims at giving English readers a general view of the social condition and the popular movements of Germany during the period known as that of the Reformation. It deals with a period limited, roughly speaking, by the closing years of the fifteenth century on the one side, and by 1525, the year of the great Peasant rising, on the other. It contains a narrative of the earlier popular revolutionary movements at the close of the Middle Ages, the precursors of the Peasants' War; and it also deals with the underlying causes, economic, social and juridical, of the general disintegration of the time.
The New Larned History for Ready Reference, Reading and Research
Author: Josephus Nelson LarnedPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 972
Book Description
Author: