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  title info:
    title: Slavery after Rome, 500-1100
  name:
    name part: Rio, Alice
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2017
    copyright date: 2017
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xi, 285 pages ; 24 cm.
  abstract: '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 labor over others in different times and places, and is it possible, underneath all this diversity, to identify some coherent trajectories of historical change?
  table of contents: 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.
  note: Alice Rio.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [251]-278) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: e------
  subject:
    topic: Slavery
    geographic: Europe, Western
    topic: History
    temporal: To 1500
  subject:
    topic: Serfdom
    geographic: Europe, Western
    topic: History
    temporal: To 1500
  classification: HT1155 .R56 2017
  classification: 306.3620940902
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Oxford studies in medieval European history
  identifier: 9780198704058
  identifier: 0198704054
  identifier: 2016950219
  record info:
    record content source: ERASA
    record creation date: 160805
    record change date: 20171016141110.0
    record identifier: in00003855756