Freedom, Imprisonment, and Slavery in the Pre-Modern World
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Freedom, Imprisonment, and Slavery in the Pre-Modern World

Cultural-Historical, Social-Literary, and Theoretical Reflections

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Freedom, Imprisonment, and Slavery in the Pre-Modern World

Cultural-Historical, Social-Literary, and Theoretical Reflections

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Contrary to common assumptions, medieval and early modern writers and poets often addressed the high value of freedom, whether we think of such fable authors as Marie de France or Ulrich Bonerius. Similarly, medieval history knows of numerous struggles by various peoples to maintain their own freedom or political independence. Nevertheless, as this study illustrates, throughout the pre-modern period, the loss of freedom could happen quite easily, affecting high and low (including kings and princes) and there are many literary texts and historical documents that address the problems of imprisonment and even enslavement (Georgius of Hungary, Johann Schiltberger, Hans Ulrich Krafft, etc.). Simultaneously, philosophers and theologians discussed intensively the fundamental question regarding free will (e.g., Augustine) and political freedom (e.g., John of Salisbury). Moreover, quite a large number of major pre-modern poets spent a long time in prison where they composed some of their major works (Boethius, Marco Polo, Charles d'Orléans, Thomas Malory, etc.). This book brings to light a vast range of relevant sources that confirm the existence of this fundamental and impactful discourse on freedom, imprisonment, and enslavement.

Prof. Albrecht Classen is the joint winner of The Literary Encyclopedia book prize for 2023: "Literatures written in languages other than English" for this book: https://www.litencyc.com/book-prizes/book_prizes_2023.php

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Publisher
De Gruyter
Year
2021
ISBN
9783110731859
Edition
1
Topic
History
Subtopic
European Medieval History
Index
History

Index

Note: Although the apparatus to this study offers a wide range of additional discussions about related issues and relevant research, I have not drawn key words from there for this index. However, the reader is encouraged to utilize this index as a gateway toward the wider issues addressed there.
  • Abd al-Rahmān III, Caliph
  • Abelard, Peter
  • Act of Abjuration
  • Adolph I, Duke of Cleves
  • Aegidius Romanus
  • Alfonso X of Castile
  • Aliscans
  • Alpharts Tod
  • Alphonse de Poitiers
  • Andreas Capellanus
  • Anselm of Canterbury
  • Apollonius of Tyre
  • Aquinas, Thomas
  • Aristotle
  • Attila the Hun
  • Aucassin et Nicolette
  • Augustine, St., Bishop of Hippo
  • Baibars al-Bunduqdari
  • Barbara von Hauenstein
  • BartolomĂ© de las Casas
  • Beaufort, Joan
  • Beowulf
  • Berlin Wall
  • Bernard of Clairvaux
  • Bertram de Born (the Elder)
  • Bey of Constantine
  • Blondel, minstrel
  • Boccaccio
  • Boethius
  • Bogdan
  • Boleyn, Anne, Queen
  • Bonerius, Ulrich
  • Bonhoeffer, Dietrich
  • Brant, Sebastian
  • Brinhild
  • Brooke, Henry
  • Bunyan, John
  • Campanella, Tommaso
  • Capone, Alphonse Gabriel
  • Cassou, Jean
  • Cato of Utica
  • Chanson de Aliscans
  • Chanson de Roland
  • Charlemagne, Emperor
  • Charles d’Anjou
  • Charles d’OrlĂ©ans
  • Charles V, Emperor
  • Chaucer, Geoffrey
  • Christine de Pizan
  • Cobham, Lord
  • Conrad, Priest
  • Czech Lands
  • Daniel, Arnaut
  • Dante Alighieri
  • Das Lied vom HĂŒrnen Seyfrid
  • David, Duke of Rothesay
  • Der Stricker
  • Descartes, RenĂ©
  • Devotio moderna
  • Dietrichs Flucht
  • Diu Klage
  • Duns Scotus
  • Dutch Republic
  • Edward I, King
  • Edward IV, King
  • Eike von Repgow
  • Eilhart von Oberg
  • Ekkehard I of St. Gall, monk
  • Elisabeth of Schönau
  • Elizabeth I, Queen
  • Endorfer, Friedrich
  • Engelbert of Admont
  • Ensslin, Gudrun
  • Epicureans
  • Erasmus of Rotterdam
  • Eric of Pomerania, King
  • exile
  • Fakhr-ad-Din Yusuf, Emir
  • Faris ad-Din Aktai
  • Fichte, Johann Gottlieb
  • Fitzwalter, Robert
  • Fleck, Konrad
  • Floire and Blanchefleur
  • Formulary of Marculf
  • Fortunatus
  • Frank, Ann
  • Frankfurt, Harry G.
  • Frederick I Barbarossa, Emperor
  • Frederick II, Emperor
  • Frederick IV, Duke of Tyrol
  • Fridolin, Stephan
  • Frisia
  • Galilei, Galileo
  • Geoffrey de Villehardouin
  • Geoffrey of Fontaines
  • Georgius of Hungary
  • Gospel of Nicodemus
  • Gottfried von Strassburg
  • Gower, John
  • Gramsci, Antonio
  • Gregory the Great
  • Grettir’s Saga
  • Grettis saga Ásmandarsonar
  • Gruneweg, Martin
  • Guantanamo Bay
  • Guarionex, King
  • Guiraut de Borneil
  • Harald, King
  • Hartmann von Aue
  • Henry IV, King
  • Henry of Castile the Senator
  • Henry of Ghent
  • Henry V, King
  • Henry VI, Emperor
  • Henry VII, King
  • Henry VIII, King
  • Hess, Rudolph
  • Higden, Ranulf
  • “Hildebrandslied”
  • Hildegard of Bingen
  • Historia septem sapientum
  • Hitler, Adolf
  • Hrotsvit of Gandersheim
  • Hugh de Morville
  • Hugo von Trimberg
  • Huguenots
  • Iceland
  • Isidor of Seville
  • IslendingasĂŽgur
  • Jacobus de Voragine
  • James I of England, King
  • James I of Scotland, King
  • Japanese-Americans (internment camps)
  • Jean, Duke of Bourbon
  • Jean d’Arras
  • Johanitza, King
  • John, King
  • John of Salisbury
  • Joinville
  • Juan GinĂ©s de Sepulveda
  • Juan Manuel, Don
  • Kaufringer, Heinrich
  • Kempe, Margery
  • kidnapping
  • König Rother
  • Krafft, Hans Ulrich
  • Kudrun
  • LandnĂĄmabĂł
  • Latini, Brunetto
  • Law of Uppland
  • LaxdĂŠla Saga
  • Lebuinus, St.
  • Leo X, Pope
  • Leonard, Saint
  • Leopold V, Duke of Austria
  • Levi, Primo
  • Lombardus, Peter
  • Louis IX, King
  • Louis the Pious, Emperor
  • Louis VIII of France, King
  • Louis XIII, King
  • Louis XIV
  • Ludgate prison
  • Luis de LeĂłn, Fray
  • Luther, Martin
  • Magna Carta
  • Malory, Thomas
  • Mandela, Nelson
  • Marco Polo
  • Marcus Aurelius, Emperor
  • Marguerite de Navarre
  • Marguerite de PorĂšte
  • Marie de ClĂšves
  • Marie de France
  • Marshalsea Prison
  • Marsilio of Padua
  • Meister Eckhart
  • Melchior Manlich Trade Company
  • Messenius, Johannes
  • Migerditz
  • Miguel de Cervantes
  • Mill, John Stuart
  • Montesinos, Antonio de
  • More, Thomas
  • Neville, Richard
  • Newgate prison
  • Nibelungenlied
  • NjĂĄl’s Saga
  • Odorico da Pordenone
  • Olufs, Harck
  • Order of Merced
  • Order of the Trinitarians
  • Ortnit
  • Oswald
  • Oswald von Wolkenstein
  • Otto I, Emperor
  • Otto von Freising
  • Ovid
  • Philip II, King
  • Philip the Good, Duke
  • Philippe de Beaumanoir
  • Pietro della Vigna
  • Plato
  • Poe, Edgar Allan
  • El Poema de MĂ­o Cid
  • Poland
  • Pommerania
  • Pound, Ezra
  • Quevedo, Juan
  • Rabenschlacht
  • racism
  • Radulph of Coggeshall
  • Rafold, Heinrich
  • Rahewin
  • Raleigh, Walter
  • Ratushinskaya, Irina
  • Regin SmiĂ°ur
  • Remigio dei Girolami
  • Richard I Lionheart, King
  • Richard of Devizes
  • RĂ­gsĂŸula
  • Robert, Earl of Fife
  • Robert of Melun
  • Roger of Howden
  • Rolan, Marie-Jeanne
  • Roman de Cassidorus
  • Le Roman des Sept Sages de Rome
  • Rudolf von Ems
  • Ruodlieb
  • Rustichello da Pisa
  • Sachs, Hans
  • Saladin
  • Salman und Morolf
  • Schiltberger, Johann
  • Scotus, John Duns
  • Shakespeare, William
  • Siete Partidas
  • Sigmund, Duke of Tyrol
  • Simonsson, Tomas, Bishop
  • Socrates
  • Solzhenitsyn, Alexander
  • “Song of Engelbrekt”
  • Steinhöwel, Heinrich
  • Stewart, Robert, Duke of Albany
  • Stoics
  • Stuart, Arabella
  • Switzerland
  • Tamerlane
  • Tempier, Etienne
  • The Pipe Roll
  • Thibaut de Champagne
  • Thirty Years’ War
  • Thomas Marchale
  • Thorgilsson, ArĂ­
  • ThĂŒring von Ringoltingen
  • ÞiĂ°rekssaga
  • Tower
  • “TĂŒrkendrucke”
  • tyranny
  • Ulrich von Zazikhoven
  • Viaticum
  • Vidal, Peire
  • Villon, François
  • Vlad II, Duke
  • Völsunga Saga
  • Waldere
  • Waltharius
  • Wernher der GardenĂŠre
  • Wilde, Oscar
  • William of Occam
  • William of St. Thierry
  • William von Newburgh
  • Winterbach, Mayer
  • Wolfdietrich D
  • Wolfram von Eschenbach

Notes

1
Amartya Sen, Development as Freedom (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999); Shahram Jafarzadeh and Mohhamad Bagher Beheshti, “Importance of Freedom in Humanities Developing,” Procedia: Social and Behavioral Sciences 31 (2012): 323 – 32 (despite a somewhat faulty English, certainly a useful study). As Peter Augustine Lawler and Richard Reinsch, “Freedom and the Human Person,” National Affairs 44 (2020), online at: https://www.nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/freedom-and-the-human-person (last accessed on Jan. 15, 2021), state: “The American, constitutional mean between abstract universalism and tribal secessionism, according to Brownson, is a limited political unity of citizens who know they are also more than and less than citizens. All of us equally are shaped by natural, personal imperatives having to do with flourishing as material, political, and spiritual beings. When we forget any of the three, we fall into trouble. The material being is concerned with the personal subsistence of himself and his family. The political being is concerned with the common good shared by citizens in a ‘territorial democracy’ in a particular part of the world. The spiritual being is concerned with discovering his relational duties to his loving personal Creator and sharing that personal news with his fellow creatures through the church” (no pagination). See now also the serious warning by Larry M. Bartels about the possible destruction of fundamental democratic principles and ethical norms by the radical right in the United States in the 2020 presidential elections, dangerously inflamed because of the perceived threat to ...

Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright
  3. Contents
  4. Introduction
  5. A Imprisonment
  6. B Freedom
  7. C Imprisonment and Slavery Through Many Different Lenses
  8. D Literary Treatment of Imprisonment and Slavery
  9. E Famous Historical Prisoners
  10. F Crime and Imprisonment in Literary Terms
  11. G Freedom, the Protestant Reformation, and Slavery in the New World
  12. Conclusions
  13. Index