Slaves And Warriors In Medieval Britain And Ireland

Author : David R. Wyatt
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004175334

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Slaves and Warriors in Medieval Britain and Ireland by David R. Wyatt Pdf

Modern sensibilities have clouded historical views of slavery, perhaps more so than any other medieval social institution. Anachronistic economic rationales and notions about the progression of European civilisation have immeasurably distorted our view of slavery in the medieval context. As a result historians have focussed their efforts upon explaining the disappearance of this medieval institution rather than seeking to understand it. This book highlights the extreme cultural/social significance of slavery for the societies of medieval Britain and Ireland c. 800-1200. Concentrating upon the lifestyle, attitudes and motivations of the slave-holders and slave-raiders, it explores the violent activities and behavioural codes of Britain and Ireland s warrior-centred societies, illustrating the extreme significance of the institution of slavery for constructions of power, ethnic identity and gender.

Author : David R. Wyatt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Civilization, Anglo-Saxon
ISBN : OCLC:1119996398

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Slavery and Culture in Medieval Britain and Ireland by David R. Wyatt Pdf

Author : Lindy Brady
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009225656

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The Origin Legends of Early Medieval Britain and Ireland by Lindy Brady Pdf

The inhabitants of early medieval Britain and Ireland shared the knowledge that the region held four peoples and the awareness that they must have originally come from 'elsewhere'. The Origin Legends of Early Medieval Britain and Ireland studies these peoples' origin stories, an important genre that has shaped national identity and collective history from the early medieval period to the present day. These multilingual texts share many common features that repay their study as a genre, but have previously been isolated as four disparate traditions and used to argue for the long roots of current nationalisms. Yet they were not written or read in isolation during the medieval period. Individual narratives were in constant development, written and rewritten to respond to other texts. This book argues that insular origin legends developed together to flesh out the history of the insular region as a whole.

Author : Lindy Brady
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2023-10-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009275828

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Multilingualism in Early Medieval Britain by Lindy Brady Pdf

This Element offers a comprehensive synthesis of the evidence from the pre-Norman period that situates Old English as one of several living languages that together formed the basis of a vibrant oral and written literary culture in early medieval Britain.

Author : David Eltis,Keith R. Bradley,Craig Perry,Stanley L. Engerman,Paul Cartledge,David Richardson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 603 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521840675

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The Cambridge World History of Slavery: Volume 2, AD 500-AD 1420 by David Eltis,Keith R. Bradley,Craig Perry,Stanley L. Engerman,Paul Cartledge,David Richardson Pdf

In this volume, leading scholars provide essay-length coverage of slavery in a wide variety of medieval contexts around the globe.

Author : Rosamund Allen,Jane Roberts,Carole Weinberg
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 768 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9789401209526

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Reading La Amon's Brut: Approaches and Explorations by Rosamund Allen,Jane Roberts,Carole Weinberg Pdf

For La3amon, or Lawman (both forms are used), a parish priest living on the Welsh March c.1200, the criteria of language, race and territory all provided ways of defining the nation state, which is why his Brut commands a diverse readership to-day. The range of view-points in this book reflects the breadth and complexity of La3amon’s own vision of the way his world is moulded by past conquests and racial tensions. The Brut is an open-ended narrative of Britain, its peoples, and its place-names as they changed under new rulers, and tells, for the first time in English, the rise and fall of Arthur, highlighting his role in the unfolding history of Britain. Beginning with its legendary founder, Brutus, the story is imagined anew, and although it concludes with an Anglo-Saxon kingdom, La3amon’s closing words remind us that changes will come: i-wurðe þet iwurðe: i-wurðe Godes wille. Amen. This book offers detailed discussion and new perspectives. Its contributors explore aspects of behaviour and attitudes, personal and national identity and governance, language, metre, and the reception of La3amon’s Brut in later times. Comparisons are made with Latin writings and with French, Welsh, Spanish and Icelandic, placing La3amon firmly within a European network of readers and redactors. The book will interest those working on medieval chronicles, as well as specialists in medieval law, custom, English language and literature, and comparative literature.

Author : Damian Alan Pargas,Felicia Roşu
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 1711 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004346611

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Critical Readings on Global Slavery by Damian Alan Pargas,Felicia Roşu Pdf

Critical Readings on Global Slavery offers students and researchers a rich collection of previously published works by some of the most preeminent scholars of slavery in various regions and time periods, from antiquity to the present day.

Author : Felix Biermann,Marek Jankowiak
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030732912

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The Archaeology of Slavery in Early Medieval Northern Europe by Felix Biermann,Marek Jankowiak Pdf

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.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004255128

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Celtic-Norse Relationships in the Irish Sea in the Middle Ages 800-1200 by Anonim Pdf

This collection of papers offers views of the interation and interdependence of Celtic and Norse populations in the the Irish Sea region in the period 800 A.D.-1200 A.D., bringing together the work of historians, archaeologists, art- and religious-historians and philologists

Author : Richard W. Kaeuper
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521761680

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Medieval Chivalry by Richard W. Kaeuper Pdf

Richard Kaeuper presents a new analysis of chivalry, re-interpreting it as a fundamental aspect of medieval society.

Author : David Stefan Doddington,Enrico Dal Lago
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781474285605

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Writing the History of Slavery by David Stefan Doddington,Enrico Dal Lago Pdf

Exploring the major historiographical, theoretical, and methodological approaches that have shaped studies on slavery, this addition to the Writing History series highlights the varied ways that historians have approached the fluid and complex systems of human bondage, domination, and exploitation that have developed in societies across the world. The first part examines more recent attempts to place slavery in a global context, touching on contexts such as religion, empire, and capitalism. In its second part, the book looks closely at the key themes and methods that emerge as historians reckon with the dynamics of historical slavery. These range from politics, economics and quantitative analyses, to race and gender, to pyschohistory, history from below, and many more. Throughout, examples of slavery and its impact are considered across time and place: in Ancient Greece and Rome, Medieval Europe, colonial Asia, Africa, and the Americas, and trades throughout the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. Also taken into account are thinkers from Antiquity to the 20th century and the impact their ideas have had on the subject and the debates that follow. This book is essential reading for students and scholars at all levels who are interested in not only the history of slavery but in how that history has come to be written and how its debates have been framed across civilizations.

Author : Craig Perry,David Eltis,Stanley L. Engerman,David Richardson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 603 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009158985

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The Cambridge World History of Slavery: Volume 2, AD 500–AD 1420 by Craig Perry,David Eltis,Stanley L. Engerman,David Richardson Pdf

Medieval slavery has received little attention relative to slavery in ancient Greece and Rome and in the early modern Atlantic world. This imbalance in the scholarship has led many to assume that slavery was of minor importance in the Middle Ages. In fact, the practice of slavery continued unabated across the globe throughout the medieval millennium. 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 assembling twenty-three original essays, written by scholars acknowledged as leaders in their respective fields. The volume demonstrates the continual and central presence of slavery in societies worldwide between 500 CE and 1420 CE. The essays analyze key concepts in the history of slavery, including gender, trade, empire, state formation and diplomacy, labor, childhood, social status and mobility, cultural attitudes, spectrums of dependency and coercion, and life histories of enslaved people.

Author : Judith A. Green
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017-06-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521193597

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Forging the Kingdom by Judith A. Green Pdf

A study of English society and political culture that casts new light on the significance of the Norman Conquest.

Author : Larissa Tracy
Publisher : DS Brewer
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9781843843511

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Castration and Culture in the Middle Ages by Larissa Tracy Pdf

Essays exploring medieval castration, as reflected in archaeology, law, historical record, and literary motifs.

Author : Frédéric Armao
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2022-12-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000823790

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Uisneach or the Center of Ireland by Frédéric Armao Pdf

The hill of Uisneach lies almost exactly at the geographical center of Ireland. Remarkably, a fraction at least of the ancient Irish population was aware of that fact. There is no doubt that the place of Uisneach in Irish mythology, and more broadly speaking the Celtic world, was of utmost importance: Uisneach was – and probably still is – best defined as a sacred hill at the center of Ireland, possibly the sacred hill of the center of Ireland. Uisneach or the Center of Ireland explores the medieval documents connected with the hill and compares them with both archeological data and modern Irish folklore. In the early 21st century, a Fire Festival started being held on Uisneach in connection with the festival of Bealtaine, in early May, arguably in an attempt to echo more ancient traditions: the celebration was attended by Michael D. Higgins, the current president of Ireland, who lit the fire of Uisneach on 6 May 2017. This book argues that the symbolic significance of the hill has echoed the evolution of Irish society through time, be it in political, spiritual and religious terms or, perhaps more accurately, in terms of identity and Irishness. It is relevant for scholars and advanced students in the fields of cultural history, Irish history and cultural studies.