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The Archaeology of Slavery in Early Medieval Northern Europe (eBook)

The Invisible Commodity

Felix Biermann, Marek Jankowiak (Herausgeber)

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2021 | 1. Auflage
IX, 191 Seiten
Springer-Verlag
978-3-030-73291-2 (ISBN)

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This volume is the first comprehensive study of the material imprint of slavery in early medieval Europe. While written sources attest to the ubiquity of slavery and slave trade in early medieval British Isles, Scandinavia and Slavic lands, it is still difficult to find material traces of this reality, other than the hundreds of thousands of Islamic coins paid in exchange for the northern European slaves. This volume offers the first structured reflection on how to bridge this gap. It reviews the types of material evidence that can be associated with the institution of slavery and the slave trade in early medieval northern Europe, from individual objects (such as e.g. shackles) to more comprehensive landscape approaches.

The book is divided into four sections. The first presents the analytical tools developed in Africa and prehistoric Europe to identify and describe social phenomena associated with slavery and the slave trade. The following three section review the three main cultural zones of early medieval northern Europe: the British Isles, Scandinavia, and Slavic central Europe. The contributions offer methodological reflections on the concept of the archaeology of slavery. They emphasize that the material record, by its nature, admits multiple interpretations. More broadly, this book comes at a time when the history of slavery is being integrated into academic syllabi in most western countries. The collection of studies contributes to a more nuanced perspective on this important and controversial topic. This volume appeals to multiple audiences interested in comparative and global studies of slavery, and will constitute the point of reference for future debates.

Felix Biermann is an Associate Professor of early medieval archaeology at the University of Szczecin, Poland. His research interests include the archaeology and history of the Baltic Sea area, Middle and Eastern Europe from c. 500-1500, with special emphasis on social and economic structures, interregional contacts and the archaeology of fortified settlements.

Marek Jankowiak is an Associate Professor of Byzantine history at the University of Oxford. In addition to his interests in Byzantine social and economic history, he works on the slave trade system that connected the Islamic world and northern Europe in the ninth and tenth centuries. He was the co-investigator of the AHRC project 'Dirhams for Slaves' and co-edited 'Viking-Age Trade: Silver, Slaves and Gotland' (2020).

Erscheint lt. Verlag	18.11.2021
Reihe/Serie	Themes in Contemporary Archaeology
Zusatzinfo	IX, 191 p. 69 illus., 33 illus. in color.
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
Schlagworte	Ambátts in High Medieval Scania and Östergötland • Archaeological Investigation of Slavery in Africa • archaeology of slavery • Archaeology of Slave Trading in Viking Age Britain and Ireland • Arrogation of Slavery • Bonded People • comparative slavery • Dirham Hoards • Early Medieval Economy • early medieval europe • Identifying Slaves in an Early Medieval Scandinavian Society • Medieval Long-distance Trade • Medieval Slavery • People as Property • Slavery and Slave Trade in Early Medieval Czech Duchy • Slavery in Early Medieval Western Britain • Slave Trade and the Archaeology of Tenth-Century Northern Europe • Slave Trade in Great Moravia • Thralls in Viking-Age and Early Medieval Sweden • Viking Slavery
ISBN-10	3-030-73291-6 / 3030732916
ISBN-13	978-3-030-73291-2 / 9783030732912

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