Incarceration and Slavery in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age (eBook, ePUB)

A Cultural-Historical Investigation of the Dark Side in the Pre-Modern World
Redaktion: Classen, Albrecht

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

People in the Middle Ages and the early modern age more often suffered from imprisonment and enslavement than we might have assumed. Incarceration and Slavery in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age approaches these topics from a wide variety of perspectives and demonstrates collectively the great relevance of the issues involved. Both incarceration and slavery were (and continue to be) most painful experiences, and no one was guaranteed exemption from it. High-ranking nobles and royalties were often the victims of imprisonment and, at times, had to wait many years until their ransom was paid. Similarly, slavery existed throughout Christian Europe and in the Arab world. However, while imprisonment occasionally proved to be the catalyst for major writings and creativity, slaves in the Ottoman empire and in Egypt succeeded in rising to the highest position in society (Janissaries, Mamluks, and others).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 528
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Oktober 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781793648297
• Artikelnr.: 62833091

Autorenporträt

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