Situations of Freedom and Unfreedom in the Great Ecclesiastical Properties of Al-Andalus (c. 950-1060)
Abstract
The Arabic MS 1623 of the Royal Library of the Monastery of El Escorial is extremely rich in information on the form of governing the large tracts of ecclesiastical properties that survived from the Visigothic period until well into the Andalusi period. The transformations that occurred in land exploitation are currently being explored through archaeology, but the Canonical Collection of Andalusi Christians (c. 950-1060) allows us to analyse1 the continuity of the Visigothic servile system, the typology of unfree and free persons under Christian law and its parallels in Maliki law, and the characteristics of manumission and the persistence of the Christian slave system once it passed into Islamic rule.
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