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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? 0What 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?

Cover -- Titelei -- Impressum -- Significance -- The Path of the Body and Tantra -- Primary Union -- Preliminary Information -- The phases of the Encounter -- The forms of orgasm -- Summary -- From sex to Love -- Further literature -- Index -- About the authors -- Roberta Rio -- Francesco Alessandrini

Über Symbole zu sprechen bedeutet, die Struktur hinter der Schöpfung zu erfassen. Zeitlos haben sie aus der tiefsten menschlichen Vergangenheit bis in die Gegenwart überdauert. Einige dieser Symbole treten zeitgleich in verschiedenen Teilen der Erde auf. Dies legt die Hypothese nahe, dass die selben Symbole nicht durch den Kontakt verschiedener Völker entstanden sind, sondern dass jedes Volk vielmehr aus einem vorzeitlichen, allen Menschen zugänglichen Substrat schöpft. Inhaltsverzeichnis Einleitung Eine Richtigstellung Die Triskele Einige Beispiele für Triskele: Variationen Hypothese üb

Legal formularies are books of model legal documents compiled by early medieval scribes for their own use and that of their pupils. A major source for the history of early medieval Europe, they document social relations beyond the narrow world of the political elite. Formularies offer much information regarding the lives of ordinary people: sales and gifts of land, divorces, adoptions, and disputes over labour as well as theft, rape or murder. Until now, the use of formularies as a historical source has been hampered by severe methodological problems, in particular through the difficulty of establishing a precise chronological or geographical context for them. By examining Frankish legal formularies from the Merovingian and Carolingian periods, this book provides an invaluable, detailed analysis of the problems and possibilities associated with formularies, and will be required reading for scholars of early medieval history