Slavery in the Carolingian Empire
Alice Rio
This chapter looks at the varieties and trajectories of unfree status in Carolingian empire. Rather than seeing it only as a point transition from A (Roman slavery) to B (medieval serfdom), aims consider practical logic unfreedom category early medieval West, variety different contexts: enslavement (the slave trade, self-sale, penal enslavement), household slavery, on great estates, law-making.
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