Forms of unfreedom in the Medieval Mediterranean
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Forms of unfreedom in the Medieval Mediterranean

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Forms of unfreedom in the Medieval Mediterranean

About this book

Dependence and loss of freedom – be it partial or total – go hand in hand. During the Middle Ages, people were bonded together through a wide variety of ties that limited their freedom in different ways and to variable degrees.This volume explores these forms of unfreedom. Focusing on both the Iberian Peninsula and the Mediterranean from the eighth century until the fifteenth, the contributors focus on aspects such as transformations of terminology, implementation of different legal traditions across time and space, establishment and dissolution of bonds, and details of everyday life attached to these situations. Looking at the "ties that bind", that is, the obligations acquired and everyday implications of the establishment of that dependence, this volume reflects on concepts such as captivity, slavery, manumission and serfdom, among others, and their appearance in the sources.

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Yes, you can access Forms of unfreedom in the Medieval Mediterranean by Maria Filomena Lopes de Barros,Clara Almagro Vidal in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in History & European Medieval History. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Bibliographic informations
  3. First pages
  4. Table of contents
  5. In Memoriam, Maria Filomena Lopes de Barros
  6. Introduction: ties that bind and shape unfreedoms
  7. Lingering bonds. Ideology of slavery and servile taint in medieval Asturias, 8th-13th centuries
  8. Ties before and after manumission
  9. Some voices on institutional, cultural and personal ties from within a Mediterranean island society with a Byzantine matrix
  10. Overlapping dependences: Muslims and military Orders in medieval Castile
  11. The semantics of Moors’ dependency in medieval Portugal
  12. The manumission of slaves in fourteenth and fifteenth century Famagusta
  13. Differentiated conditions nevertheless
  14. A peasant community in Cyprus