Slavery After Rome, 500-1100 (Oxford Studies in Medieval European History) - Softcover

Rio, Alice

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0198865813 ISBN 13: 9780198865810

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2020

Synopsis

What happened to slavery in Europe in the centuries following the fall of the Roman Empire? This book is the only history of slavery and serfdom to span 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.

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About the Author

Alice Rio, Reader in Medieval European History, King's College London

Alice Rio was Junior Research Fellow at New College, Oxford, and Osborn Fellow and College Lecturer at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, before joining the History department at King's College London in 2009. She is the author of Legal Practice and the Written Word in the Early Middle Ages (2009), which won the Royal Historical Society Gladstone Prize in 2010, as well as of a number of articles on law, legal practice, and unfreedom in the early middle ages.

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0198865813
• ISBN 13: 9780198865810
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 304