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Slavery After Rome, 500-1100 (Hardcover)
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Slavery After Rome, 500-1100 (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Studies in Medieval European History
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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?
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