Youval Rotman (Professor of History and the Chair of the School of Jewish Studies and Archaeology at Tel Aviv University) is a social historian of the Byzantine Mediterranean world who focuses on themes of social transformation in the First Millennium.

• Introduction: Whence Slavery?Chapter 1: From Present to Past and BackChapter 2: Slavery between Empire and Christianity – the first to fourth centuriesChapter 3: Enslavement, Captivity and the Monotheistic Turn – the fifth to seventh centuriesChapter 4: New Polities, New Societies, New Economies – the eighth to tenth centuriesChapter 5: Migration, Integration, Connectivity – the ninth to eleventh centuriesConclusion: Slavery as a Historical Process – Towards a New DefinitionBibliography

Youval Rotman (Professor of History and the Chair of the School of Jewish Studies and Archaeology at Tel Aviv University) is a social historian of the Byzantine Mediterranean world who focuses on themes of social transformation in the First Millennium.

• Introduction: Whence Slavery?Chapter 1: From Present to Past and BackChapter 2: Slavery between Empire and Christianity – the first to fourth centuriesChapter 3: Enslavement, Captivity and the Monotheistic Turn – the fifth to seventh centuriesChapter 4: New Polities, New Societies, New Economies – the eighth to tenth centuriesChapter 5: Migration, Integration, Connectivity – the ninth to eleventh centuriesConclusion: Slavery as a Historical Process – Towards a New DefinitionBibliography

Youval Rotman (Professor of History and the Chair of the School of Jewish Studies and Archaeology at Tel Aviv University) is a social historian of the Byzantine Mediterranean world who focuses on themes of social transformation in the First Millennium.

• Introduction: Whence Slavery?Chapter 1: From Present to Past and BackChapter 2: Slavery between Empire and Christianity – the first to fourth centuriesChapter 3: Enslavement, Captivity and the Monotheistic Turn – the fifth to seventh centuriesChapter 4: New Polities, New Societies, New Economies – the eighth to tenth centuriesChapter 5: Migration, Integration, Connectivity – the ninth to eleventh centuriesConclusion: Slavery as a Historical Process – Towards a New DefinitionBibliography