Middle Age - History Lab https://historylab.es Fri, 13 Jan 2023 12:29:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://historylab.es/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-icono-historylab-32x32.jpg Middle Age - History Lab https://historylab.es 32 32 From antiquity to the Middle Ages https://historylab.es/from-antiquity-to-the-middle-ages/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=from-antiquity-to-the-middle-ages Thu, 01 Dec 2022 12:41:10 +0000 https://historylab.es/from-antiquity-to-the-middle-ages/ From Antiquity to the Middle Ages: History of Slavery.

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]]> Conference held at the Egyptian Museum entitled: “Slaves and servants from ancient Egypt to medieval Europe: a history of misunderstandings”. Since the birth of the first hierarchical and classed societies, the forms of exploitation of the work of others have been manifold. Yet some terms used to describe dependency relationships, such as “servant”, “slave” and “corvée”, have found wide applicability to very different and distant societies. In this conference a medievalist, Professor Giuseppe Sergi (professor of Medieval History at the University of Turin) and an Egyptologist, Doctor Federico Poole (Curator of the Egyptian Museum) face the challenge of measuring together differences and similarities between the societies from respectively studied, and the possibility of a common language to talk about social phenomena. At the same time, they deconstruct some clichés regarding the societies they study, for example regarding serfdom as the main form of enslavement in the Middle Ages, or the opposite clichés, one popular, the other academic, that slavery would have been predominant. or, conversely, substantially absent in Pharaonic Egypt.

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]]> The serfs https://historylab.es/the-serfs/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-serfs Thu, 01 Dec 2022 12:41:10 +0000 https://historylab.es/the-serfs/ In the Middle Ages, new forms of exploitation slowly replaced slavery, such as serfdom, whose term (lat.servus, slave) designates the condition of dependence of a farmer who binds him to the land on which he resides and to a master. This condition concerns men or women who do not enjoy personal liberties, they belonged to a gentleman and were bound to the gleba, or to the land they cultivated (peasants). Its origin goes back to the last centuries of the Roman Empire, when a class of farmers was created, still legally free.

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]]> Podcast by Alessandro Barbero, Taken from an episode of “Past and Present”, broadcast on Rai Storia.

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]]> Travel in the Middle Ages, with John F. Romano https://historylab.es/travel-in-the-middle-ages-with-john-f-romano/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=travel-in-the-middle-ages-with-john-f-romano Thu, 01 Dec 2022 12:41:03 +0000 https://historylab.es/travel-in-the-middle-ages-with-john-f-romano/ Conference and interview to Prof. John F. Romano.

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]]> A common myth about the medieval period is that no one traveled anywhere, but stayed in the place they were born until they died. This week on The Medieval Podcast, Danièle speaks with John F. Romano to find out what travel was really like in the Middle Ages.

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