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OverviewPeople 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). Full Product DetailsAuthor: Albrecht Classen , Warren Tormey , Chiara Benati , Doaa OmranPublisher: Lexington Books Imprint: Lexington Books Dimensions: Width: 16.10cm , Height: 3.40cm , Length: 22.70cm Weight: 0.898kg ISBN: 9781793648280ISBN 10: 179364828 Pages: 528 Publication Date: 15 October 2021 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsIntroduction: 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 Shaddād: 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 Cruelty in Medieval and Modern Iberia (Eighth Through Nineteenth Centuries) Abel Lorenzo-Rodríguez Chapter 8: Tit for Tat: Imprisonment, Slavery, Torture and Other Retribution in William IX’s Gab of the Red Cat Fidel Fajardo-Acosta Chapter 9: Thralls in Old Icelandic Literature: Historical Trope or Literary Device? Carlee Arnett Chapter 10: Piracy, Imprisonment, Merchants, and Freedom: Rudolf von Ems’s The Good Gerhart (ca. 1220): Mediterranean Perspectives in a Middle High German Context; with Some Reflections on the Topic of Imprisonment in Other Medieval Narratives Albrecht Classen Chapter 11: Don Juan Manuel’s Long-Lost Uncle, Don Enrique: Back From Twenty-Five Years in Captivity in Italy Maria Cecilia Ruiz Chapter 12: Mamlūks, Qaḍis, and the Local Population: A Discourse of Resistance, Power, and Liminality in Medieval Egypt Sally Abed Chapter 13: The Education of Male Slaves in the Ottoman Empire and the Restructuring of Ottoman Social Hierarchy Maha Baddar Chapter 14: From Imprisonment to Liberation: Chaucer’s Knight’s Tale as a Multi-Layered Exploration of a Paradigm for Prison Life Daniel F. Pigg Chapter 15: How to Get Out of Prison: Imprisoned Jews and Their Hafturfehde: Records from the Medieval and Early Modern Holy Roman Empire (Fourteenth to Sixteenth Centuries) Andreas Lehnertz and Birgit Wiedl Chapter 16: Overcoming Stress in Imprisonment: How Positive Religious Coping and Expressive Writing Helped Fray Luis de León Survive His Inquisitorial Trial (1572‒1576) J. Michael Fulton Chapter 17: Health and Community Rescue or Soul Salvation? Incarceration as an Anti-Plague Measure in the Czech Lands in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries Filip Hrbek Chapter 18: Shakespeare’s Savage Slave Thomas WillardReviewsAt last the medieval dungeon of our fantasies has been given back its existential realities and usefully put into historical perspective, with exciting contributions by over twenty highly accomplished scholars in a richly illustrated and finely edited collection.--Garry Trompf, Emeritus Professor in the History of Ideas, University of Sydney In this volume are presented eighteen different essays that explore slavery and imprisonment as well as the circumstances that encouraged, condoned or condemned it. These studies, framed by a substantial introduction, consider perspectives from Muslim, Jewish and Christian societies of the late antique through early modern eras. They range from treatments literary to historical, whether of individuals or groups, examining ways in which freedoms were taken away through punishment or misfortune while considering the impacts of gender and class on these losses of liberty. This is a book that, beyond its historical boundaries, resonates with contemporary concerns regarding human freedoms and dignities. It will be of interest to scholars in many disciplines, including literary, economic, religious, social and military historians.--Charlotte Stanford, Brigham Young University "At last the medieval dungeon of our fantasies has been given back its existential realities and usefully put into historical perspective, with exciting contributions by over twenty highly accomplished scholars in a richly illustrated and finely edited collection. --Garry Trompf, University of Sydney In this volume are presented eighteen different essays that explore slavery and imprisonment as well as the circumstances that encouraged, condoned or condemned it. These studies, framed by a substantial introduction, consider perspectives from Muslim, Jewish and Christian societies of the late antique through early modern eras. They range from treatments literary to historical, whether of individuals or groups, examining ways in which freedoms were taken away through punishment or misfortune while considering the impacts of gender and class on these losses of liberty. This is a book that, beyond its historical boundaries, resonates with contemporary concerns regarding human freedoms and dignities. It will be of interest to scholars in many disciplines, including literary, economic, religious, social and military historians. --Charlotte Stanford, Brigham Young University This volume is a valuable contribution to a growing body of scholarship on the global history of slavery. It could be fruitfully read as a supplement to other recent works, such as the Cambridge World History of Slavery series, the Journal of Global Slavery, and the research of the Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies (https: //www.dependency.uni-bonn.de/en/research/publications/bcdsss-publishing-series). Scholars working in specialized subfields of medieval or early modern studies might wish to read only one or two of the most relevant essays, but the entire volume will interest scholars of slavery and/ or incarceration in historical contexts. The volume's twin treatment of slavery and incarceration also seems a fruitful trajectory for future research. -- ""Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies""" At last the medieval dungeon of our fantasies has been given back its existential realities and usefully put into historical perspective, with exciting contributions by over twenty highly accomplished scholars in a richly illustrated and finely edited collection. In this volume are presented eighteen different essays that explore slavery and imprisonment as well as the circumstances that encouraged, condoned or condemned it. These studies, framed by a substantial introduction, consider perspectives from Muslim, Jewish and Christian societies of the late antique through early modern eras. They range from treatments literary to historical, whether of individuals or groups, examining ways in which freedoms were taken away through punishment or misfortune while considering the impacts of gender and class on these losses of liberty. This is a book that, beyond its historical boundaries, resonates with contemporary concerns regarding human freedoms and dignities. It will be of interest to scholars in many disciplines, including literary, economic, religious, social and military historians. This volume is a valuable contribution to a growing body of scholarship on the global history of slavery. It could be fruitfully read as a supplement to other recent works, such as the Cambridge World History of Slavery series, the Journal of Global Slavery, and the research of the Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies (https: //www.dependency.uni-bonn.de/en/research/publications/bcdsss-publishing-series). Scholars working in specialized subfields of medieval or early modern studies might wish to read only one or two of the most relevant essays, but the entire volume will interest scholars of slavery and/ or incarceration in historical contexts. The volume's twin treatment of slavery and incarceration also seems a fruitful trajectory for future research. Author InformationAlbrecht Classen is University Distinguished Professor of German studies at the University of Arizona. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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