Slavery in Germanic Society During the Middle Ages (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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We draw our information concerning slavery mainly from two sources: from his tory and from the laws of the nations with which we are dealing. History gives a few leading hints of the origin and development of slavery, but that it never proceeds to dis cuss or explain the nature of Slavery is because it is naturally less concerned with definitions than with events. For more exhaustive knowledge we turn to the laws. These, if not always explicit, attempt to lay down rules for conduct from which it is possible to draw definite conclusions concerning almost every relation of life. Slavery, besides being a feature of society, is above all a juridical relation, and belongs almost exclusively under the head of civil law. If, however, the slave figures conspicuously in the paragraphs of the criminal code, this is due to his peculiar double relation as thing and as man.

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That loyal affection to Dr. Wergeland's memory should suggest the thought of reprinting her monograph on Slavery in Germanic Society during the Middle Ages will seem wholly natural, as certainly it will be deeply gratifying, to all those who really knew her. While she was much else than merely a scholar - a woman of noble character, a valiant soul, generous, straightforward, friendly, an inspiring teacher, and a literary writer of varied accomplishments in more than one language - it was impossible not to wish that something of what she did in the field of scholarship, the field into which she threw the main endeavors of her forcible and energetic mind, might be preserved in a permanent form. The circumstances of her life, especially the devoted work of the teacher, did not permit the completion of any large book.

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Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.