In this volume, scholars of pre-modern Europe and the Arab world examine the issues of incarceration and slavery. The emphasis rests on religious, literary, philosophical, and historical narratives, buttressed by art-historical evidence, all of which demonstrates the true importance of these painful problems.
In this volume, scholars of pre-modern Europe and the Arab world examine the issues of incarceration and slavery. The emphasis rests on religious, literary, philosophical, and historical narratives, buttressed by art-historical evidence, all of which demonstrates the true importance of these painful problems.
Albrecht Classen is University Distinguished Professor of German studies at the University of Arizona.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction: Historical, Literary, and Philosophical Reflections on the Phenomena of Imprisonment and Slavery in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period Albrecht Classen Chapter 1: The Transformation of Gehenna: Taking the Biblical Wasteland into the Prison House of Hell Warren Tormey Chapter 2: Insprinc haptbandun, inuar uigandun: Magical (?) Remedies to Escape from Imprisonment in the Germanic Tradition Chiara Benati Chapter 3: Ambivalence in the Poems of the Slave-Knight 'Antarah Ibn Shaddad: An Engagement with Historicism(s) Doaa Omran Chapter 4: Slavery and Anti-Slavery Discourse in the Qur'an: A New-Historicist Reading Christiane Paulus and Magda Hasabelnaby Chapter 5: The Tragic Incarceration and Martyrdom of Al-Hallaj: A Spiritual Passage from Suffering to Glorification Amany El-Sawy Chapter 6: Fruitless Wars and Abominable Crimes: Unfreedom in the Political Rule and Violence of Late Ninth-Century Southern Italy Sarah Whitten Chapter 7: Prisons That Never Were: Ruins, Churches, and Cru
Introduction: Historical, Literary, and Philosophical Reflections on the Phenomena of Imprisonment and Slavery in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period Albrecht Classen Chapter 1: The Transformation of Gehenna: Taking the Biblical Wasteland into the Prison House of Hell Warren Tormey Chapter 2: Insprinc haptbandun, inuar uigandun: Magical (?) Remedies to Escape from Imprisonment in the Germanic Tradition Chiara Benati Chapter 3: Ambivalence in the Poems of the Slave-Knight 'Antarah Ibn Shaddad: An Engagement with Historicism(s) Doaa Omran Chapter 4: Slavery and Anti-Slavery Discourse in the Qur'an: A New-Historicist Reading Christiane Paulus and Magda Hasabelnaby Chapter 5: The Tragic Incarceration and Martyrdom of Al-Hallaj: A Spiritual Passage from Suffering to Glorification Amany El-Sawy Chapter 6: Fruitless Wars and Abominable Crimes: Unfreedom in the Political Rule and Violence of Late Ninth-Century Southern Italy Sarah Whitten Chapter 7: Prisons That Never Were: Ruins, Churches, and Cru
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