ISBN:
9780582291850
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (369 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Serfdom and Slavery : Studies in Legal Bondage
DDC:
306.3/62
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Serfdom and Slavery compares the two forms of legal servitude in cultures in Western civilization, in Europe and the New World from ancient times to the modern period. Within a tightly controlled framework of general contextual chapters followed by specific case studies, a distinguished team of scholars offers 17 specially written essays that illuminate the nature, development, impact and termination of serfdom and slavery in European society. While the case studies range form classical Greece to early modern Brandenburg, and from medieval England to nineteenth-century Russia, the volume as a
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Part One:Comparative studies of serfdom and slavery; 1.Introduction; Slavery; Serfdom; 2. Slavery, serfdom and other forms of coerced labour: similarities and differences; Slaves and serfs: similarities; Slaves and serfs: differences; Other labour systems; Acquiring and using labour; Differing forms of coercion; Ending slavery and serfdom; Concluding remarks; 3.Some controversial questions concerning nineteenth-century emancipation from slavery and serfdom; The coming of emancipation; The process of emancipation
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The aftermath of emancipationPart Two:Themes and case studies on slavery; 4.Continuity and change in Western slavery: ancient to modern times; Slavery in the Roman Republic and Empire; Medieval European and Islamic slavery; Slavery in the Americas; 5.The origin and establishment of Ancient Greek slavery; Slaveholding in the worlds of Homer and Hesiod; The development of slavery between c. 700 and500 BC; 6.The hierarchical household in Roman society: a study of domestic slavery; Linguistic distinctions; Legal distinctions; Ritual and other symbolic distinctions; The ideology of the household
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7.Emancipation in Byzantium: Roman law in a medieval societyChristianity and slavery; From Rome to Byzantium; The process of manumission; Why not emancipate?; Protecting the established order; 8.New World slavery, Old World slavery; 9.Slave exploitation and the elementary structures of enslavement; Dimensions of slave exploitation; Slavery and development; 10.Slave emancipations in modern history; Part Three:Themes and case studies on serfdom; 11.Serfdom in medieval and modern Europe: a comparison; Personal serfs and servile tenures; The world of the serf; Serfdoms harsh and lenient
Description / Table of Contents:
The rise and fall of serfdomThe significance of serfdom; Closing remarks; 12. On servile status in the early Middle Ages; Problems of text, terminology and numbers; Recent analyses; When did serfdom begin?; Outside the mainstream; What changed?; Postscript; 13.The rises and declines of serfdom in medieval and early modern Europe; Serfdom and the economic reproduction of lords; The rise and first decline of serfdom: the limits of classicalfeudalism or banal lordship; Overcoming the weaknesses of decentralized lordship: the rise of the centralized tax/office state
Description / Table of Contents:
Overcoming the weaknesses of decentralized lordship: the second rise of serfdom, via the centralized feudal state, in England and CataloniaThe second decline of serfdom: England and Catalonia; The third rise of serfdom: lordly self-centralization in Eastern Europe; Conclusion; 14. Memories of freedom: attitudes towards serfdom in England, 1200-1350; The evidence; Attitudes to serfdom; The King; Economic Attitudes; Social Memory; Conclusion; 15. Subject farmers in Brandenburg-Prussia and Poland: village life and fortunes under manorialism in early modern Central Europe
Description / Table of Contents:
Historiographical traditions and prevailing interpretations
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Description based upon print version of record
