Alice Rio was Junior Research Fellow at New College, Oxford, and Osborn Fellow and College Lecturer at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, before joining the History department at King's College London in 2009. She is the author of Legal Practice and the Written Word in the Early Middle Ages (2009), which won the Royal Historical Society Gladstone Prize in 2010, as well as of a number of articles on law, legal practice, and unfreedom in the early middle ages.
Introduction
Part I: Diversity: ways in and ways out
1: Slave raiding and slave trading
2: Self-sale, debt slavery, and penal enslavement
3: Freedmen and manumission
Part II: Regularities: the logic of diversity
4: Household slavery and service
5: Unfree status in estate communities
Part III: The institutional framework: continuity and change
6: Rights and duties
Conclusion
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