IMC 2006: Sessions
Session 107: Subtle Meanings or Empty Gestures: A Problem of Medieval Manumissions
Monday 10 July 2006, 11.15-12.45
Sponsor: | Hilton Shepherd Postgraduate Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Birmingham |
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Organiser: | Aysu Dinçer, Independent Scholar, Birmingham |
Moderator/Chair: | Simon Stuart Yarrow, Department of Medieval History, University of Birmingham |
Paper 107-a | Manumission Formulae in Post-Conquest Exeter (Language: English) Index terms: Charters and Diplomatics, Genealogy and Prosopography, Local History |
Paper 107-b | Manumissions in Late Medieval Cyprus (Language: English) Index terms: Crusades, Economics - General, Law |
Paper 107-c | Slavery and Freedom in Árpád-Era Hungary (Language: English) Index terms: Social History |
Abstract | This session will examine the extent to which the manumissions of slaves and others were of real consequence or merely of symbolic value. The main emphasis will be on considering the formulae used in manumissions, and if the variations in these formulae have legal or practical significance. In these records, various conditions might be attached to these grants of freedom, it is important that manumissions are considered not only as a class of record but also within their local context. |