How would you ransom captives? Money? Threat of war? Let them rot? In a previous post (Abduction Leads to Slavery in the Iberian Frontier), I…
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Tag: Medieval
“Slavery was the invariable result of captivity because those so taken were considered to be spoils of war to be used or sold to the…
Doesn’t seem possible, right? I mean assembly lines in the European Dark Ages? Yes. Technological innovation did not come to a halt after the fall…
