Albrecht Classen is University Distinguished Professor of German studies at the University of Arizona.

This volume is a valuable contribution to a growing body of scholarship on the global history of slavery. It could be fruitfully read as a supplement to other recent works, such as the Cambridge World History of Slavery series, the Journal of Global Slavery, and the research of the Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies (https://www.dependency.uni-bonn.de/en/research/publications/bcdsss-publishing-series). Scholars working in specialized subfields of medieval or early modern studies might wish to read only one or two of the most relevant essays, but the entire volume will interest scholars of slavery and/ or incarceration in historical contexts. The volume’s twin treatment of slavery and incarceration also seems a fruitful trajectory for future research.

• Introduction: Historical, Literary, and Philosophical Reflections on the Phenomena of Imprisonment and Slavery in the Middle Ages and Early Modern PeriodAlbrecht ClassenChapter 1: The Transformation of Gehenna: Taking the Biblical Wasteland into the Prison House of HellWarren TormeyChapter 2: Insprinc haptbandun, inuar uigandun: Magical (?) Remedies to Escape from Imprisonment in the Germanic TraditionChiara BenatiChapter 3: Ambivalence in the Poems of the Slave-Knight ‘Antarah Ibn Shaddad: An Engagement with Historicism(s)Doaa OmranChapter 4: Slavery and Anti-Slavery Discourse in the Qur’an: A New-Historicist ReadingChristiane Paulus and Magda Hasabelnaby Chapter 5: The Tragic Incarceration and Martyrdom of Al-Hallaj: A Spiritual Passage from Suffering to GlorificationAmany El-SawyChapter 6: Fruitless Wars and Abominable Crimes: Unfreedom in the Political Rule and Violence of Late Ninth-Century Southern ItalySarah WhittenChapter 7: Prisons That Never Were: Ruins, Churches, and Cru

Albrecht Classen is University Distinguished Professor of German studies at the University of Arizona.

This volume is a valuable contribution to a growing body of scholarship on the global history of slavery. It could be fruitfully read as a supplement to other recent works, such as the Cambridge World History of Slavery series, the Journal of Global Slavery, and the research of the Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies (https://www.dependency.uni-bonn.de/en/research/publications/bcdsss-publishing-series). Scholars working in specialized subfields of medieval or early modern studies might wish to read only one or two of the most relevant essays, but the entire volume will interest scholars of slavery and/ or incarceration in historical contexts. The volume’s twin treatment of slavery and incarceration also seems a fruitful trajectory for future research.

• Introduction: Historical, Literary, and Philosophical Reflections on the Phenomena of Imprisonment and Slavery in the Middle Ages and Early Modern PeriodAlbrecht ClassenChapter 1: The Transformation of Gehenna: Taking the Biblical Wasteland into the Prison House of HellWarren TormeyChapter 2: Insprinc haptbandun, inuar uigandun: Magical (?) Remedies to Escape from Imprisonment in the Germanic TraditionChiara BenatiChapter 3: Ambivalence in the Poems of the Slave-Knight ‘Antarah Ibn Shaddad: An Engagement with Historicism(s)Doaa OmranChapter 4: Slavery and Anti-Slavery Discourse in the Qur’an: A New-Historicist ReadingChristiane Paulus and Magda Hasabelnaby Chapter 5: The Tragic Incarceration and Martyrdom of Al-Hallaj: A Spiritual Passage from Suffering to GlorificationAmany El-SawyChapter 6: Fruitless Wars and Abominable Crimes: Unfreedom in the Political Rule and Violence of Late Ninth-Century Southern ItalySarah WhittenChapter 7: Prisons That Never Were: Ruins, Churches, and Cru

Albrecht Classen is University Distinguished Professor of German studies at the University of Arizona.

This volume is a valuable contribution to a growing body of scholarship on the global history of slavery. It could be fruitfully read as a supplement to other recent works, such as the Cambridge World History of Slavery series, the Journal of Global Slavery, and the research of the Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies (https://www.dependency.uni-bonn.de/en/research/publications/bcdsss-publishing-series). Scholars working in specialized subfields of medieval or early modern studies might wish to read only one or two of the most relevant essays, but the entire volume will interest scholars of slavery and/ or incarceration in historical contexts. The volume’s twin treatment of slavery and incarceration also seems a fruitful trajectory for future research.

• Introduction: Historical, Literary, and Philosophical Reflections on the Phenomena of Imprisonment and Slavery in the Middle Ages and Early Modern PeriodAlbrecht ClassenChapter 1: The Transformation of Gehenna: Taking the Biblical Wasteland into the Prison House of HellWarren TormeyChapter 2: Insprinc haptbandun, inuar uigandun: Magical (?) Remedies to Escape from Imprisonment in the Germanic TraditionChiara BenatiChapter 3: Ambivalence in the Poems of the Slave-Knight ‘Antarah Ibn Shaddad: An Engagement with Historicism(s)Doaa OmranChapter 4: Slavery and Anti-Slavery Discourse in the Qur’an: A New-Historicist ReadingChristiane Paulus and Magda Hasabelnaby Chapter 5: The Tragic Incarceration and Martyrdom of Al-Hallaj: A Spiritual Passage from Suffering to GlorificationAmany El-SawyChapter 6: Fruitless Wars and Abominable Crimes: Unfreedom in the Political Rule and Violence of Late Ninth-Century Southern ItalySarah WhittenChapter 7: Prisons That Never Were: Ruins, Churches, and Cru