Slavery and Society in Medieval Scandinavia

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Slavery and Society in Medieval Scandinavia is written by Ruth Mazo Karras and published by . It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0300041217 (ISBN 10) and 9780300041217 (ISBN 13).

This book is the first work in English to examine the institutuion of slavery in Norway, Denmark, Sweden, and Iceland from the Viking Age to its end in the fourteenth century. Drawing on a wide variety of cources-- law codes, will, charters, sagas, chronicles, and archaeological data-- Ruth Mazo Karras discusses the social, legal, and economic aspects of slavery in Scandinavia, comparing them with conditions of servitude in the rest of medieval Europe.