IMC 2016: Sessions
Session 238: The Experience of Slavery in the Medieval World, II: The Vikings and Their Impact
Monday 4 July 2016, 14.15-15.45
| Organisers: | Marek Jankowiak, Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford David Wyatt, School of History, Archaeology & Religion, Cardiff University |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Marek Jankowiak, Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford |
| Paper 238-a | Carolingian Slavery and the Viking Threat (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Economics - Trade, Maritime and Naval Studies |
| Paper 238-b | Slavery in the Viking Age: The Role of Human Commodities in North Sea Cultural Networks (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Economics - Trade |
| Paper 238-c | Slaves in Scandinavia: Sources and Supply (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Economics - Trade |
| Abstract | These three papers all examine Scandinavian slave-trading. The first argues that slavery was a cornerstone in the Carolingian construction of power, and that external Viking attack as well as internal social instability subverted Carolingian control of these institutions. The second discuss how slavery fit into the burgeoning economy of the Viking Age and how slave taking, trading, and freeing served as a unique vector for cross-cultural contact across northern Europe. The third looks at literary sources in the context of the Baltic crusades which opened new possibilities for taking slaves to Scandinavia. |