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In this volume, scholars of pre-modern Europe and the Arab world examine the issues of incarceration and slavery. The emphasis rests on religious, literary, philosophical, and historical narratives, buttressed by art-historical evidence, all of which demonstrates the true importance of these painful problems.
List of contents
Introduction: Historical, Literary, and Philosophical Reflections on the Phenomena of Imprisonment and Slavery in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period
Albrecht Classen
Chapter 1: The Transformation of Gehenna: Taking the Biblical Wasteland into the Prison House of Hell
Warren Tormey
Chapter 2: Insprinc haptbandun, inuar uigandun: Magical (?) Remedies to Escape from Imprisonment in the Germanic Tradition
Chiara Benati
Chapter 3: Ambivalence in the Poems of the Slave-Knight 'Antarah Ibn Shadd¿d: An Engagement with Historicism(s)
Doaa Omran
Chapter 4: Slavery and Anti-Slavery Discourse in the Qur'an: A New-Historicist Reading
Christiane Paulus and Magda Hasabelnaby
Chapter 5: The Tragic Incarceration and Martyrdom of Al-Hallaj: A Spiritual Passage from Suffering to Glorification
Amany El-Sawy
Chapter 6: Fruitless Wars and Abominable Crimes: Unfreedom in the Political Rule and Violence of Late Ninth-Century Southern Italy
Sarah Whitten
Chapter 7: Prisons That Never Were: Ruins, Churches, and Cruelty in Medieval and Modern Iberia (Eighth Through Nineteenth Centuries)
Abel Lorenzo-Rodríguez
Chapter 8: Tit for Tat: Imprisonment, Slavery, Torture and Other Retribution in William IX's Gab of the Red Cat
Fidel Fajardo-Acosta
Chapter 9: Thralls in Old Icelandic Literature: Historical Trope or Literary Device?
Carlee Arnett
Chapter 10: Piracy, Imprisonment, Merchants, and Freedom: Rudolf von Ems's The Good Gerhart (ca. 1220): Mediterranean Perspectives in a Middle High German Context; with Some Reflections on the Topic of Imprisonment in Other Medieval Narratives
Albrecht Classen
Chapter 11: Don Juan Manuel's Long-Lost Uncle, Don Enrique: Back From Twenty-Five Years in Captivity in Italy
Maria Cecilia Ruiz
Chapter 12: Maml¿ks, Qäis, and the Local Population: A Discourse of Resistance, Power, and Liminality in Medieval Egypt
Sally Abed
Chapter 13: The Education of Male Slaves in the Ottoman Empire and the Restructuring of Ottoman Social Hierarchy
Maha Baddar
Chapter 14: From Imprisonment to Liberation: Chaucer's Knight's Tale as a Multi-Layered Exploration of a Paradigm for Prison Life
Daniel F. Pigg
Chapter 15: How to Get Out of Prison: Imprisoned Jews and Their Hafturfehde: Records from the Medieval and Early Modern Holy Roman Empire (Fourteenth to Sixteenth Centuries)
Andreas Lehnertz and Birgit Wiedl
Chapter 16: Overcoming Stress in Imprisonment: How Positive Religious Coping and Expressive Writing Helped Fray Luis de León Survive His Inquisitorial Trial (1572¿1576)
J. Michael Fulton
Chapter 17: Health and Community Rescue or Soul Salvation? Incarceration as an Anti-Plague Measure in the Czech Lands in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
Filip Hrbek
Chapter 18: Shakespeare's Savage Slave
Thomas Willard
About the author
Edited by Albrecht Classen - Contributions by Warren Tormey; Chiara Benati; Doaa Omran; Christiane Paulus; Magda Hasabelnaby; Amany El-Sawy; Sarah Whitten; Abel Lorenzo-Rodríguez; Fidel Fajardo-Acosta; Carlee Arnett; Albrecht Classen; Maria Cecilia Ruiz;
Summary
In this volume, scholars of pre-modern Europe and the Arab world examine the issues of incarceration and slavery. The emphasis rests on religious, literary, philosophical, and historical narratives, buttressed by art-historical evidence, all of which demonstrates the true importance of these painful problems.
