Germanic Law and the Practice of Slaveholding in the Post-Roman West

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Introduction 1
4. I The Presence of Slavery and other Dependency Relations in Normative Sources
5. Women, Children, and Slaves as Dependants of the Householder in Rabbinic and Roman Law 9
6. Dependents in the Conciliar Legislation of the Church in Gaul (c. 400–700) 27
7. Dependencies in the Formulae in the Frankish Kingdom 45
8. II Continuities and Discontinuities in Slave Legislation and Slaving Practices
9. Terms of Dependency in Post-Roman Law Codes 67
10. Germanic Law and the Practice of Slaveholding in the Post-Roman West 91
11. Laeti and liti: Legal Status, Military Lands and the Changing Nature of Dependency from Late Antique Gaul to the Carolingian Empire 129
12. The Punishment of servi in Merovingian and Carolingian Legal Texts 153
13. III Case Studies
14. The Exiling of Women from Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages: Data, Patterns, and Research Avenues 181
15. Charlemagne and the oppressio pauperum 213
16. Precarial Contracts Between Members of Different Social Groups 231
17. Bibliography 241
18. List of Sources and Editions 265