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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? What 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?

What happened to slavery in Europe in the centuries following the fall of the Roman Empire? This work spans the whole of early medieval Western Europe and addresses issues of slave-taking and slave-trading; people who became slaves as a result of a debt or a crime; even people who chose to become slaves.

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. By taking a fresh look at Frankish legal formularies from the Merovingian and Carolingian periods, this book provides a detailed analysis of the problems and possibilities associated with formularies