TY - BOOK AU - Vlassopoulos,Kostas TI - Historicising ancient slavery /Kostas Vlassopoulos T2 - Edinburgh studies in ancient slavery SN - 9781474487238 AV - HT863 .H578 2021 KW - Slavery KW - History KW - To 1500 KW - Civilization, Ancient KW - Electronic Books N1 - 2; Introduction --; Historiographies --; The Formation of the Dominant Paradigm in the Study of Ancient Slavery --; The Global Study of Slavery --; Recent Developments in the Study of Ancient Slavery --; What Is Slavery? --; An Instructive Case: Early Medieval Slavery and `Serfdom' ; The Conceptual Systems of Slavery --; Slaving Strategies and Contexts --; Slaving Strategies --; Slaving Contexts --; Slave-making --; Enslaved Persons --; Identification Modes and Forms of Relationships --; Categorisation, Self-understanding and Groupness --; Dialectical Relationships --; The Master-Slave Relationship --; The Free-Slave Relationship --; The Relationships Within Slave Communities --; The Slave View of Slavery: Slave Hopes and the Reality of Slavery --; Modalities of Slavery --; Exploring Slave Hopes under Slavery --; The Slave Hope for Freedom --; Slaving in Space and Time --; Epichoric Systems of Slaving --; Societies with Slaves and Slave Societies --; Accounting for Change --; The Agency of Enslaved Persons and Historical Change --; Conclusions; 2; b N2 - "Informed by the global history of slavery, Kostas Vlassopoulos avoids traditional approaches to slavery as a static institution and instead explores the diverse strategies and various contexts in which it was employed. In doing so he offers a new historicist approach to the study of slave identity and the various networks and communities that slaves created or participated in."-- UR - httpss://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=3030865&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -