The admission of former slaves into churches and monasteries: reaching behind the sources.

Religious institutions in early medieval Europe were both recipients of former slaves and instigators of manumissions. By drawing on recent work concerning the admission of former slaves into churches and monasteries, the present paper identifies dominant strands in the historiography from Marc Bloc...

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Published in:	Early Medieval Europe Vol. 29; no. 4; pp. 586 - 612
Main Authors:	Flechner, Roy, Fontaine, Janel
Format:	Article
Published:	Wiley-Blackwell Nov2021
Subjects:	Religious institutions Emancipation of slaves Bloch, Marc Leopold Benjamin, 1886-1944 Monasteries Roman law
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost