Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Youval Rotman

Titel

Enslavement, Captivity, and the Monotheistic Turn: Fifth to Seventh Centuries

Ist Teil von

• Slaveries of the First Millennium, 2021, p.45

Ort / Verlag

Arc Humanities Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2021

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Ever since Roman slavery became a focus of research it has been treated under two axiomatic theses that became inseparable. The first was that slaves formed a social class of Roman society and played a major role in the economic life of the Empire. The second was that Roman slavery declined along with the declne of the Empire. The two theses together have determined the way we define and understand what Roman and medieval slaveries were. So, it is essential to analyze this idea of decline in the state of slavery in the passage from Late Antiquity into the Middle