This volume is the first comprehensive study of the material imprint of slavery in early medieval Europe. While written sources attest to the ubiquity of slaver

Recent advances in research show that the distinctive features of high medieval civilization began developing centuries earlier than previously thought. The era

The result of my research was turned into a book published in Swedish in 2012. This present book is a revised translation and extensively extended version of th

Although the distant origins of medieval Central Europe have enjoyed constant interest among historians, only marginal attention has been paid to the power and