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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Rio, Alice (19..-.... ; historienne)
Titre(s) : Slavery after Rome, 500-1100 [Texte imprimé] / Alice Rio
Édition : 1st ed.
Publication : Oxford, GB : Oxford University press, 2017
Description matérielle : xi, 285 pages ; 24 cm
Collection : Oxford Studies in Medieval European history
Lien à la collection : Oxford studies in Medieval European history
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-278) and index
'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?
Sujet(s) : Esclavage -- Europe de l'Ouest -- Moyen âge
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780198704058. - ISBN 0198704054
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45319790s
Notice n° :
FRBNF45319790
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Introduction ; Slave raiding and slave trading ; Self-sale, debt slavery, and penal
enslavement ; Freedmen and Manumission ; Household slavery and service ; Unfree
status in estate communities ; Rights and duties ; Conclusion.
