<p>This book is first and foremost an extended examination and discussion of the enslavement of men and women by others of their society and in particular of the means and causes of the gradual end of slavery in early medieval Europe between 500 and 1200. Drawing upon a very wide range of primary and archival sources, Professor Bonnassie places fresh findings about subjection, servitude and lordship in relation to the prevailing understanding of social history which has developed since the work of Marc Bloch. The author explains how slavery long persisted in southern France and Spain, as part of a public order that also sheltered free peasants, giving way in the tenth and eleventh centuries to a new regime of harsh lordships that mark the beginnings of feudalism. He shows that feudalism in south-western Europe was no less significant than in northern European lands.</p>

From Slavery to Feudalism in South-Western Europe (Past and Present Publications)

Business & Money

Bonnassie, Pierre

Economics

Cambridge University Press

This book is first and foremost an extended examination and discussion of the enslavement of men and women by others of their society and in particular of the means and causes of the gradual end of slavery in early medieval Europe between 500 and 1200. Drawing upon a very wide range of primary and archival sources, Professor Bonnassie places fresh findings about subjection, servitude and lordship in relation to the prevailing understanding of social history which has developed since the work of Marc Bloch. The author explains how slavery long persisted in southern France and Spain, as part of a public order that also sheltered free peasants, giving way in the tenth and eleventh centuries to a new regime of harsh lordships that mark the beginnings of feudalism. He shows that feudalism in south-western Europe was no less significant than in northern European lands.

History

Europe

Les cinquante mots clefs de l'histoire médiévale (French Edition)

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Privat

<p>Barcelona. 19 cm. 368 p. il., mapas, planos. Encuadernación en tapa blanda de editorial ilustrada. Colección 'Biblioteca de bolsillo', numero coleccion(133). Traducción castellana de Bernat Hervàs. Índice. España. Historia. 414-1474. Al-Andalus. Guichard, Pierre. 1939-. Gerbet, Marie-Claude. Biblioteca de bolsillo (Editorial Crítica). 133 .. Este libro es de segunda mano y tiene o puede tener marcas y señales de su anterior propietario. ISBN: 978-84-7423-812-9</p>

Las Españas medievales

Gerbert, Marie-Claude

Booket

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