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==[[Manumission]]==

This article has almost no content relating to the rituals and realities of manumission in the MA, which was a fairly common practice both in the north (at least up to the twelfth century) and in the Mediterranean (where something akin to ancient "slavery" continued in places like Genoa, inter alia, for centuries).  I'm swamped at the moment, but perhaps someone with a social history Jones could have a go at this?? [[User:SGilsdorf|SGilsdorf]] 13:33, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

:[[Slavery]] and [[History of slavery]] have virtually zero mention of medieval slavery...we could write a whole big article about it! I am also swamped but I would be happy to collaborate on that topic. [[User:Adam Bishop|Adam Bishop]] 15:57, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
::I do not believe I have a great deal of sources for this topic on hand, but I would be happy to begin a (stubby) section at those articles soon in hopes that one of you can beef it up. [[User:Srnec|Srnec]] 17:46, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
::Adam--there is in fact [[Slavery in medieval Europe]], although it's pretty sparse and could use some TLC.  Maybe this is where medieval manumission belongs, in the end... [[User:SGilsdorf|SGilsdorf]] 20:18, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
:::By the same token, rather than adding new material to [[Slavery]] and [[History of slavery]], couldn't we just add an annotated link to [[Slavery in medieval Europe]] at the appropriate points in both articles, and then focus on the latter one? [[User:SGilsdorf|SGilsdorf]] 20:21, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
::::Right, I didn't know we had that article until now. Let's add to that one. [[User:Adam Bishop|Adam Bishop]] 20:25, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
:::::I too had no idea such an article existed until today. I found it discussed higher up on this very page! [[User:Srnec|Srnec]] 04:52, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

Ok, I've been going over what sources I have immediately available, and I can add an outline of slavery and manumission in Roman/Byzantine law (as used in the middle ages, of course), as well as in canon law; justifications for slavery by various jurists and canonists; and an outline of various aspects of slavery in the crusader states. I hope that's not too specific...I found a lot of general books about medieval slavery when I was working on this for a class, which I didn't need at the time, so I will have to track them down again. [[User:Adam Bishop|Adam Bishop]] 00:47, 23 June 2007 (UTC)

:If I remember correctly, the British Library has some Anglo-Saxon manuscripts that have manumissions included as marginalia. I will try to find images of them in the coming week and put them on Commons. [[User:Dsmdgold|Dsmdgold]] 02:47, 23 June 2007 (UTC)