The Slaves of the Churches
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. The begins in New Testament era, when earliest Christian were established, continues through late Roman Empire, Germanic kingdoms, Carolingian thirteenth-century establishment a body regulations (canon law) that would persist into twentieth century. Chronicles, letters, other documents from each various historical periods, along with an analysis policies statutes, provide insight situations these unfree dependents. book stops thirteenth century, which was time great changes, not only history legal profession, but also slavery as Europeans began reach out Atlantic. Although this serious scholarly monograph about law, it has been written way no specialist knowledge required reader, whether scholar another field or general reader interested slavery. Historical background provided, there short Latin lexicon.
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