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Brink Stefan (Honorary Research Associate Honorary Research Associate Department Of Anglo - Saxon Norse And Celtic At The University Of Cambridge)
Brink Stefan (Honorary Research Associate Honorary Research Associate Department Of Anglo - Saxon Norse And Celtic At The University Of Cambridge) - Thraldom A History Of Slavery In The Viking Age - Hardcover
Brink Stefan (Honorary Research Associate Honorary Research Associate Department Of Anglo - Saxon Norse And Celtic At The University Of Cambridge) - Thraldom A History Of Slavery In The Viking Age - Hardcover
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Description: Nordic slavery is an elusive phenomenon with few similarities to the systematic exploitation of slaves in households mines and amphitheaters in the ancient Mediterranean or the widespread slavery at American plantations during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Scandinavians in the early Middle Ages lived in a society foreign to us characterized by different and shifting social statuses. A person could be at once socially respected and unfree. It was possible to hand oneself over as a slave to someone else in exchange for protection and food. One could be sentenced temporarily to enslavement for some offense but later purchase his manumission. Young men could enter into a kind of "contract" with a king or chieftain to join his retinue accepting his authority patronage and jurisdiction while at the same time making a quick social elevation. Slavery was widespread all over Europe during the early Middle Ages and Scandinavians as Stefan Brink illustrates in this book became a major player in the northern slave trade. However the Vikings were not particularly interested in taking slaves to Scandinavia; instead their "business model" seems to have been to raid abduct and then sell captured people at major slave markets. Their goal was not people but silver. Using a wide variety of source materials including archaeology runes Icelandic sagas early law place names personal names and not least etymological and semantic analyses of the terminology of slaves Thraldom provides the most thorough survey of slavery in the Viking Age.
Title: Thraldom A History Of Slavery In The Viking Age
Author(s): Brink Stefan (Honorary Research Associate Honorary Research Associate Department Of Anglo - Saxon Norse And Celtic At The University Of Cambridge)
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Barcode: 9780197532355
Pages: 408 Pages, 39
Publication Date: 9/24/2021
Category: Slavery & Abolition Of Slavery
Description: Nordic slavery is an elusive phenomenon with few similarities to the systematic exploitation of slaves in households mines and amphitheaters in the ancient Mediterranean or the widespread slavery at American plantations during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Scandinavians in the early Middle Ages lived in a society foreign to us characterized by different and shifting social statuses. A person could be at once socially respected and unfree. It was possible to hand oneself over as a slave to someone else in exchange for protection and food. One could be sentenced temporarily to enslavement for some offense but later purchase his manumission. Young men could enter into a kind of "contract" with a king or chieftain to join his retinue accepting his authority patronage and jurisdiction while at the same time making a quick social elevation. Slavery was widespread all over Europe during the early Middle Ages and Scandinavians as Stefan Brink illustrates in this book became a major player in the northern slave trade. However the Vikings were not particularly interested in taking slaves to Scandinavia; instead their "business model" seems to have been to raid abduct and then sell captured people at major slave markets. Their goal was not people but silver. Using a wide variety of source materials including archaeology runes Icelandic sagas early law place names personal names and not least etymological and semantic analyses of the terminology of slaves Thraldom provides the most thorough survey of slavery in the Viking Age.
Title: Thraldom A History Of Slavery In The Viking Age
Author(s): Brink Stefan (Honorary Research Associate Honorary Research Associate Department Of Anglo - Saxon Norse And Celtic At The University Of Cambridge)
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Barcode: 9780197532355
Pages: 408 Pages, 39
Publication Date: 9/24/2021
Category: Slavery & Abolition Of Slavery