Carolingians and Ecclesiastical Servitude
Mary E. Sommar
This is the story of how church sought to establish norms for slave ownership on part ecclesiastical institutions and personnel others’ behavior toward such slaves. Chronicles, letters, other documents from each various historical periods, along with an analysis policies statutes, provide insight into situations these unfree dependents. Although this book a serious scholarly monograph about history law, it has been written in way that no specialist knowledge required reader, whether scholar another field or general reader interested slavery. Historical background provided, there short Latin lexicon. chapter discusses slavery Carolingian Empire (c. 750–900) includes overview British Isles first Christian millennium.
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