Slavery is a word heavy with emotional and political overtones - to be owned by another person and treated as a commodity is the ultimate injustice. But this was the fate of a substantial percentage of the population of the ancient world. Slavery was essential to their societies; thus slavery is necessarily a core topic in the study of classical civilisation. Most previous studies of ancient slavery have grown out of historical and literary research. In the flood of books and papers on the subject, the archaeological evidence has often been ignored. This book fills the gap by confronting,...
Slavery is a word heavy with emotional and political overtones - to be owned by another person and treated as a commodity is the ultimate injustice...
Fifteen illustrated papers, from an Antiquaries seminar, which discuss the major architectural and free-standing sculptures of the Pre-Conquest, Romanesque and Gothic periods across England. Each section is preceded by a broad summary of research themes.
Fifteen illustrated papers, from an Antiquaries seminar, which discuss the major architectural and free-standing sculptures of the Pre-Conquest, Roman...