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early variations of our cherished biblical stories

Byzantine Slavery and the Mediterranean World 15Bibeln - fördjupning & förklaringar With skill and imaginationSlavery may no longer exist as a legal institution, but we still find many forms of non freedom in contemporary societies. It is a troubling paradox, and one this book addresses by considering a period in which the definition of slavery and freedom proved considerably flexible. Between more familiar forms of slaverythose of antiquity and of the Americasthe institution as it was practiced and theorized in the Byzantine Mediterranean was of a different