Overview
- Presents new perspective on slave trade and slavery in early medieval Europe
- Argues for the possibilities of identifying slavery in archaeological record
- Contributes to a broader understanding of slavery as a historical phenomenon
Part of the book series: Themes in Contemporary Archaeology (TCA)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Scandinavia
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Central Europe
Keywords
- 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
About this book
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 reviewthe 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.
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
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).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Archaeology of Slavery in Early Medieval Northern Europe
Book Subtitle: The Invisible Commodity
Editors: Felix Biermann, Marek Jankowiak
Series Title: Themes in Contemporary Archaeology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73291-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-73290-5Published: 19 November 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-73293-6Published: 20 November 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-73291-2Published: 18 November 2021
Series ISSN: 2730-7441
Series E-ISSN: 2730-745X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 191
Number of Illustrations: 36 b/w illustrations, 33 illustrations in colour
Topics: Archaeology