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Lectures on Slavery and Serfdom in Europe S L AVE RY AND S E R F DO M IN E UR O PE ROEHAMPTON PRINTED By JAMES STANL EY. L E CTU R E S S L AVE R Y AN D S E R F DO M N E R P E I U O . J I B N L M A W . R . O W O W . LE ’ , ’ Tr n ll mé i ity Co ege, Ca rzdge, C A N O N O F P L Y M O U T H. B U R N s A N D I D fl O A T E L M I T E . \ L ondon N ew Yo rk 2 8 2 hard S tr F O ee W. C tho ub ca on , c a lic P li ti S ociety Co . W I L I M P E L A N L L Y E . G E , S Q F C R O F T T O S Q G O S O E C . E C O , T HE F O U NDE R O F T HE Gorquag Matutal Waters; S ociety AND O F Gbe E evonebtre association, IN G RATE F U L RE C OLLE CT ION O F MAN Y PLE ASAN T H U PE T C E CT W T H T HE E TWO T U IO O RS S N IN ONN ION I S INS IT T NS , T H E S E LE C T U R E S BY HIS PE M R ISSION , P L D D I A RES ECT F UL Y E C TED. TABL E O F O NTE NT C S . ‘ T n ral De i h Wor IN ROD UCTION . Ge e s gn of t e k The Abolition of Slav ery a proof that Chris tianity is Divine Difficultyput byCardinal N ewman as to R oman Slav ery xv n m n t/z u s b r viii St. Chr sosto o o can t e ee u se it f alker y , [f f , x Answer to the difficulty Branches of the subj ect omitted : O rders for R edemption O f slav es h I dia ources of information x iii Slav ery in Britis n . S x Slav er in the N ew Wo rld Me ico and eru y , x , P Action of the Church thwarted bythe conquerors xxv ETTE O F PE E X II To T HE B H P O F B AZI L R PO L O I . IS O S R L IN 1 888 xxv iii E I L CTURE . SLAVE RY IN THE ROMAN E M P IRE — Tize was of S lav ery on til e R omans ou the labou ring classes All wor done b slav es free labour unable to find wor k y , k Slav er crushed the motiv e for inv ention and division of labour y , u n mber of slav t Clement o f Ale andria E no rmo s u es. S . x r inm nt iv en b a wealth atri i His slav es Ente ta e g y y p c an. Ej ect of Slav ery on the masters from their boyhood Ev idence from Terence and Plautus L egal condition of slav es according to Gothofred ' L aws o f C onstantine mitigating the suflerings of slav es R oman ladies and their slav es accordin to uv enal and O v id , g J — Ej ect on til e slav es reduced to the lev el of cattle Contents . r i amon slav N o ri hts ov er their hil r No legal ma r age g es. g c d en Fl mal lav e their hel less condition e e s s, p Wholesale execution of the slav es o f Pedanius Secundus C hristianity resto red the dignity of labour Justinian abolished slav ery as a penalty for crime The means used by the Church to abolish Slav ery S he taught both slav es and masters their duties towards each o ther mit t obedi n T h h is ian slav e had li s o e ce. P mi e C r t St. ota aena The Church admitted slav es to equal spiritual rights Chr sostom on this matter S t. y S lav es mi ht become riests bisho s and even o es g p , p , P p No instance of the term serou s o n a Christian epitaph Validity and sacredness of the marriage o f Christian slav es E mancipation of slav es facilitated and promo ted byChristianity D eed of manumissio n p reserv ed by Ennodius j ustinian declared freedom giv en byordination or the monas tic to nsure a ans ews and heretics forbidden to ossess Christian slav es P g , J , p b‘ I L E CTURE I. ROMAN SLAV E RY A N D ME DIE VAL S E R F DOM u h i b ct co ious in F rench rare in En lish A t or ties on the su j e , p , g ‘ ' J W hat Christianity had e fiected in the fourth century L egislation O f the Christian E mperors T he rehabilitation o f the dignity o f labour ’ A R oman v illa ru stzea according to Vitruv ius and C olumella ' T he eol om ori inall con uered nativ es bound to the soil , g y q , ‘ This binding to the soil made more stringent byChristian laws ’ Example of the S eyrz in the fifth century t G re o r the G reat o n manumission f L etters o f S . g y o slav es B z antine Em ire fr m M Bi S lav er in the o . ot y y p , Th bar ari inv asions scene described b a e b c , y Sal v i n l F irst effects of inv asions calamitous for slav es l S erfs and slav es confused under the Goths t Con ents . Chu rch thro u h the C ouncils on slav es Action o f the , g , C hu rches O pened as sanctuaries for ill-treated slav es l nd l v s S t. G re o Example of tyrannica co uct towards s a e . g ry o f To urs C ouncils insisted upon S unday being a day of freedom for slav es lav es o f bisho s and monasteries their emanci ation S p , p C harlemagne rev iv ed the priv ileges o f the serfs m I ff h f udal s ste . ts e ect on slav r l R ise of t e e y e y d m l n o m tim s fell into se rf om. E a e H o w freeme s e e x p . Why freemen O ften w ished to beco me serfs of Abbeys F u Story o f a serf of the Abbey o f le ry. ' f t ermain T he P ol tzeon o f Irmino Abbot o S . G des rés yp , P Its ev idence on the condition of serfs and free labou rers ' ' z l r in F rance serfs in E n land The a l am f ee , g L ife O f a serf in the ninth century The serf pro tected by customs w hich had the fo rce of law rfd m in G rman The S clav es S e o e y . i v al im E am l S lav ery in Italy n mediae t es . x p es e r f s iu II and aul a ainst slav D c ees o Pope P s . P III . g ery Slav ery and serfdom in Spain affected by Moorish conquest LECTURE III . VE Y AN D E F M I N T HE B T H E I E n land S LA R S R DO RI IS ISL S . g ’ ’ Sir Thomas S mith s Commonw ealtlz q nglana Vario us classes o f freemen described ' ' Vzllez ns in rosse and ail/elm re ardants bo th e tinct g g , x H ow this extinction came about Mr eebohm on the manor o f Winslo w u nder Edward . S III . ' T he v alue o f the labour dues of a v zllamts in 1 2 79 ' The labo urdues of a eotarz u s at the same period the difference T he mano rs o f E ngland fro m the elev enth to the thirteenth ce ntury Maps sho wing the proportion o f v arious classes in Domesday ' The w llani t x Conten s . ’ ' The bordarzt and eotarn ' ’ The soe/zmanni o r l zéeri lzomznes i mo numerous in th e south The sem , st The male population of Dev onshire from D omesday Mano rs o f O sbern Bisho of E eter and the serfs o n them , p x , The griev ances o f a serou s or theo w in S axon times H O W Saxo n manors w ere fo rmed in the time of Alfred Emancipation of slav es in E ngland A rchbishop Brihtwald redeems a slav e from Abbot Beorwald t Wilfrid emanci ates two hu ndred and ft slav es in S usse S .
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