Slave Trade in Great Moravia : Reality or Fiction?

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Slave Trade in Great Moravia : Reality or Fiction?

MACHÁČEK, Jiří

Basic information

Original name

Slave Trade in Great Moravia : Reality or Fiction?

Authors

MACHÁČEK, Jiří (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution)

Edition

Cham, The Archaeology of Slavery in Early Medieval Northern Europe, p. 113-126, 14 pp. Themes in Contemporary Archaeology, 2021

Publisher

Springer

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Kapitola resp. kapitoly v odborné knize

Field of Study

60102 Archaeology

Country of publisher

Switzerland

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Publication form

printed version "print"

References:

Slave Trade in Great Moravia: Reality or Fiction?

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14210/21:00119360

Organization unit

Faculty of Arts

ISBN

978-3-030-73290-5

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73291-2_9

Keywords in English

Archeology of slavery; Slave trade; Central places; Slave markets; Great Moravia

Abstract

V originále

In the ninth century, Great Moravia, which can be described as an early state or rather as a ‘cyclical chiefdom’, was the dominant power in the eastern part of central Europe not only in terms of politics, but also of culture. Some of the Great Moravian centres certainly played the role of nodal points in the networks of long-distance trade or interregional exchange. This is supported, for example, by the distribution of Byzantine coins, which trace a corridor between Venice and the Moravian sites that follows the ancient Amber Trail. From the east and the south came brocade, silk, and glass lamps. The presence of foreign merchants in early medieval Moravia, especially of the Jewish Radhanites and the Bavarians, is confirmed by written sources. The Raffelstetten Customs Regulations, dating to 904, and some Islamic sources mention ‘the main Moravian market’, but thus far it has not been possible to locate it. This paper will discuss the hypothesis that one of the most demanded goods leaving Moravia in the ninth century for Spain across the Alps and for the Near East via Venice were slaves. Unfortunately, this ‘commodity’ is archaeologically badly visible

Links

GA18-08646S, research and development project

Name: Vznik raně středověké šlechty ve středovýchodní Evropě. Archeologicko-historický pohled

Investor: Czech Science Foundation

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MACHÁČEK, Jiří. Slave Trade in Great Moravia : Reality or Fiction? In Felix Biermann, Marek Jankowiak. The Archaeology of Slavery in Early Medieval Northern Europe. Cham: Springer, 2021, p. 113-126. Themes in Contemporary Archaeology. ISBN 978-3-030-73290-5. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73291-2_9.

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