During the medieval period, wartime captives were commonly forced into slavery. As European kingdoms transitioned to feudal societies, a different legal category of unfree persons – …

While often overlooked, slavery persisted throughout the Middle Ages, shaping economies, societies, and cross-cultural trade in ways that challenge traditional historical narratives.

The cultural rebirth that occurred in Europe from roughly the fourteenth through the middle of the seventeenth centuries, based on the rediscovery of the literature of Greece and Rome.

Nov 26, 2019 · Common knowledge would have it that slavery did not exist in medieval Europe. However, there is a thriving body of scholarship which demonstrates that slavery was …

Throughout the Middle Ages, (defined by historians as a three-part time period between 500 AD and 1500 AD) the practice of slavery changed dramatically as global warfare, raiding and …

Jan 24, 2025 · During slavery in the middle ages, various forms of bondage emerged across medieval Europe. Though it differed from region to region, the core reality remained: people …

illennium. This volume – the final volume in The Cambridge World History of Slavery – covers the period between the fall of Rome and the rise of the transatlantic plantation complexes by …

The courts investigated carefully, sometimes agonizingly, who was free and who was not. But, depending on the country, the social strata, and above all the era, the realities supposedly …

Chaos and invasion made the taking of slaves habitual throughout Europe in the early Middle Ages. St. Patrick, himself captured and sold as a slave, protested an attack that enslaved …

Aug 12, 2021 · The volume demonstrates the continual and central presence of slavery in societies worldwide between 500 CE and 1420 CE.