Incarceration and slavery in the middle ages and the early modern age : a cultural-historical investigation of the dark side in the pre-modern world /: a cultural-historical investigation of the dark side in the pre-modern world. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Albrecht Classen.
• Editors: Classen, Albrecht
• Contents: Introduction: Historical, Literary, and Philosophical Reflections on the Phenomena of Imprisonment and Slavery in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period <span style="font-style:italic;">Albrecht Classen Chapter 1: The Transformation of Gehenna: Taking the Biblical Wasteland into the Prison House of Hell <span style="font-style:italic;">Warren Tormey Chapter 2: <span style="font-style:italic;">Insprinc haptbandun, inuar uigandun : Magical (?) Remedies to Escape from Imprisonment in the Germanic Tradition <span style="font-style:italic;">Chiara Benati Chapter 3: Ambival ence in the Poems of the Slave-Knight ‘Antarah Ibn Shaddād: An Engagement with Historicism(s) <span style="font-style:italic;">Doaa Omran Chapter 4: Slavery and Anti-Slavery Discourse in the Qur’an: A New-Historicist Reading <span style="font-style:italic;">Christiane Paulus and Magda Hasabelnaby Chapter 5: The Tragic Incarceration and Martyrdom of Al-Hallaj: A Spiritual Passage from Suffering to Glorification <span style="font-style:italic;">Amany El-Sawy Chapter 6: Fruitless Wars and Abominable Crimes: Unfreedom in the Political Rule and Violence of Late Ninth-Century Southern Italy <span style="font-style:italic;">Sarah Whitten Chapter 7: Prisons That Never Were: Ruins, Churches, and Cruelty in Medieval and Modern Iberia (Eighth Through Nineteenth Centuries) <span style="font-style:italic;">Abel Lorenzo-Rodríguez Chapter 8: Tit for Tat: Imprisonment, Slavery, Torture and Other Retribution in William IX’s <span style="font-style:italic;">Gab of the Red Cat <span style="font-style:italic;">Fidel Fajardo-Acosta Chapter 9: Thralls in Old Icelandic Literature: Historical Trope or Literary Device? <span style="font-style:italic;">Carlee Arnett Chapter 10: Piracy, Imprisonment, Merchants, and Freedom: Rudolf von Ems’s <span style="font-style:italic;">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 <span style="font-style:italic;">Albrecht Classen Chapter 11: Don Juan Manuel’s Long-Lost Uncle, Don Enrique: Back From Twenty-Five Years in Captivity in Italy <span style="font-style:italic;">Maria Cecilia Ruiz Chapter 12: Mamlūks, Qa ḍis, and the Local Population: A Discourse of Resistance, Power, and Liminality in Medieval Egypt <span style="font-style:italic;">Sally Abed Chapter 13: The Education of Male Slaves in the Ottoman Empire and the Restructuring of Ottoman Social Hierarchy <span style="font-style:italic;">Maha Baddar Chapter 14: From Imprisonment to Liberation: Chaucer’s <span style="font-style:italic;">Knight’s Tale as a Multi-Layered Exploration of a Paradigm for Prison Life <span style="font-style:italic;">Daniel F. Pigg Chapter 15: How to Get Out of Prison: Imprisoned Jews and Their <span style="font-style:italic;">Hafturfehde: Records from the Medieval and Early Modern Holy Roman Empire (Fourteenth to Sixteenth Centuries) <span style="font-style:italic;">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) <span style="font-style:italic;">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 <span style="font-style:italic;">Filip Hrbek Chapter 18: Shakespeare’s Savage Slave <span style="font-style:italic;">Thomas Willard
• Publisher Details: Lanham : Lexington Books
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 365.940902; Imprisonment -- Europe -- History -- To 1500; Imprisonment -- Europe -- History -- 16th century; Imprisonment -- Europe -- History -- 17th century; Imprisonment -- Arab countries -- History -- To 1500; Imprisonment -- Arab countries -- History -- 16th century; Imprisonment -- Arab countries -- History -- 17th century; Slavery -- Europe -- History -- To 1500; Slavery -- Europe -- History -- 16th century; Slavery -- Europe -- History -- 17th century; Slavery -- Arab countries -- History -- To 1500; Slavery -- Arab countries -- History -- 16th century; Slavery -- Arab countries -- History -- 17th century
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781793648297
• Related ISBNs: 9781793648280
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