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Article: Slavery in Early Mediaeval England.(Review)
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- Journal of Social History
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- June 22, 2001
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Slavery in Early Mediaeval England. By David A. E. Pelteret. Studies in Anglo-Saxon History, VII (Rochester, NY: Boydell Press, 1995. xvi plus 375 pp. $75.00).
Certain things will be expected of a book that is in the main a study of Anglo-Saxon slavery, and most of these expectations are well answered in Pelteret's work. There is, first of all--to list the cliches in order--the textbook statement regarding period and chronology: the North German tribes who invaded post-Roman Britain (in numbers we still have not established for certain) fall into the historiographical murk, or relative blankness, of the "Dark Ages," and so our data on society and economy (and ...