Naming, Defining, Phrasing Strong Asymmetrical Dependencies : : A Textual Approach / / ed. by Jeannine Bischoff, Stephan Conermann, Marion Gymnich.

An examination of the terms used in specific historical contexts to refer to those people in a society who can be categorized as being in a position of ‘strong asymmetrical dependency’ (including slavery) provides insights into the social categories and distinctions that informed asymmetrical social...

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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2023]
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Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
Series:Dependency and Slavery Studies , 8
Physical Description:1 online resource (VI, 313 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Naming, Defining, Phrasing Strong Asymmetrical Dependencies: Introduction
  • A ‘Grammar of Asymmetrical Dependency’ for Early Scandinavia (to c. 1350)
  • Servant or Slave: The Old Persian Words Bandaka, Marika and Daha and their Cognates in Middle Iranian Languages
  • Naming Eunuchs in Islamicate Societies
  • Searching for the Captive Monk: Late Antique Slavery and Syrian Ascetical Theology and Practice
  • Narrating ‘White Slavery’ in and out of Fiction, 1854–1880
  • The Slave Who Made It: Narratives of Manumitted Slaves in the Greek World
  • Captured, Abducted, Sold: The Muslim Rennewart in the Middle High German Epic Poem Willehalm
  • From Slave to Queen: Hurrem Sultan’s Agenda in Her Narration of Love (1526–1548)
  • Women in the Sachsenspiegel: Gender and Asymmetrical Dependencies
  • Differing Narratives of the Case of the Jaham Brothers and its Aftermath: Enslavement, Emancipation and their Legacies in Martinique
  • Slavery and Beyond through the Lens of Judicial Reasoning – Criminal Justice and Human Rights Approaches and Perspectives
  • Index