[ ... ] Henning, in "Slavery or freedom? The causes of early medieval Europe’s economic advancement", Early Medieval Europe 12 (2003), 269-277 comments on ... more
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Way down upon the Putrid River (that's where my charters are turning ever)
@ 2012-03-30 – 15:28:53
Given I am now, in theory, interested in charters, I have started reading some and come across a collection which has the highest proportion of weird … more -
Slavery with Viking characteristics
@ 2011-11-21 – 10:10:04
[ ... ] of Viking slavery. This attempted to use a variety of sources from sagas and laws to personal names and archaeological evidence to analyse ... more -
IMC 1: Early metal, dodgy horses and the meaning of gifts
@ 2011-08-01 – 12:08:23
[ ... ] oneself into slavery was illegal in Roman law, but also a profoundly perverse act: the punishment for self-sale was, in fact, remaining a slave, ... more -
Selling your freedom in the early Middle Ages: rhetoric and reality
@ 2010-03-18 – 07:46:25
[ ... ] change from slavery to serfdom, as Pierre Bonnassie claimed? Dominique Barthelemy argued instead for this being another example of a ‘documentary ... more
