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Incarceration and slavery in the middle ages and the early modern age : a cultural-historical investigation of the dark side in the pre-modern world / edited by Albrecht Classen.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Studies in mediaeval literature
- Studies in medieval literature
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Imprisonment--History.
- Imprisonment.
- Slavery--History.
- Slavery.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 517 pages) : color illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2021]
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Intro
- Half Title
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Introduction
- Medieval Examples
- Intermediate Results
- Hrotsvit of Gandersheim's Tenth-Century Perspectives on Imprisonment
- Slavery: A Highly Complex, Painful, and Troubling Phenomenon
- Summaries
- Notes
- Chapter 1: The Transformation of Gehenna: Taking the Biblical Wasteland into the Prison House of Hell
- Chapter 2: Insprinc haptbandun, inuar uigandun: Magical (?) Remedies to Escape from Imprisonment in the Germanic Tradition
- The First Merseburg Charm
- Parallels to the First Merseburg Charm as Escape Magic
- Late Medieval Sources
- Conclusion
- Chapter 3: Ambivalence in the Poems of the Slave-Knight 'Antarah Ibn Shaddαd: An Engagement with Historicism(s)
- 'Antarah's Poetry: Background / Historicism
- 'Antarah's Local Impact: A New Historicist Reading
- 'Antarah's Global Impact: A "Deep Time" Perspective Reading the Transnational 'Antarah
- Reflection and Conclusion
- Chapter 4: Slavery and Anti-Slavery Discourse in the Qur'an: A New-Historicist Reading
- Al-Balad (The Land): Salvation through the Freeing of Slaves
- Al-insαn (Man): Feeding the Captive24
- At-tawba (Repentance), Medinan Suras, and the Detailed Legislation34
- An-Nur (Light): From Concubinage to Marriage toward Ascending Miscegenation
- Medinan Suras and the Freeing of Salves as Penance
- Chapter 5: The Tragic Incarceration and Martyrdom of Al-Hallaj: A Spiritual Passage from Suffering to Glorification
- Chapter 6: Fruitless Wars and Abominable Crimes: Unfreedom in the Political Rule and Violence of Late Ninth-Century Southern Italy
- Introduction
- War between Naples and Salerno
- Naples and Bishop-Duke Athanasius II
- Enslavement as a War Strategy
- Salerno and Prince Guaimar I
- Chapter 7: Prisons That Never Were: Ruins, Churches, and Cruelty in Medieval and Modern Iberia (Eighth through Nineteenth Centuries)
- Ancient Places, New Memories: Forged Prisons in Iberia
- Chapter 8: Tit for Tat: Imprisonment, Slavery, Torture, and Other Retribution in William IX's Gab of the Red Cat
- Notes
- Chapter 9: Thralls in Old Icelandic Literature: Historical Trope or Literary Device?
- The Viking Age
- Who Are the Slaves and Where Do They Come From?
- The Law
- The Sagas
- Chapter 10: Piracy, Imprisonment, Merchants, and Freedom: Rudolf von Ems's The Good Gêrhart (ca. 1220): Mediterranean Perspectives in a Middle High German Context
- with Some Reflections on the Topic of Imprisonment in Other Medieval Narratives
- Freedom, Imprisonment, Slavery: The Modern Discourse
- The Premodern Discourse
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 11, 2021).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Incarceration and slavery in the middle ages and the early modern age
- ISBN:
- 9781793648297
- 1793648298
- Publisher Number:
- 40030820576
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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