The Hospitallers and their manumissions of Rhodian and Cypriot serfs (1409–1459)

• Autores: Nicholas Coureas
• Localización: The Military Orders / Nicholas Morton (ed. lit.), Vol. 7, 2019 (Piety, Pugnacity and Property), ISBN 9781351020428, pág. 14
• Idioma: español
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• Resumen

  • The serfs working the Hospitallers’ estates on Rhodes and Cyprus could be subject to manumission, like the order’s slaves. The Hospitaller Grand Master on Rhodes sometimes emancipated serfs in order to facilitate their marriage to other free persons and so increase the population. The serfs on Rhodes and Cyprus were all ethnically Greek, unlike Hospitaller slaves, whose ethnic origins and religious affiliations were more diverse. Serfs and slaves were important economic and social components of Medieval Europe and the Latin East, but their respective legal conditions differed significantly. The serfs on Rhodes and Cyprus were all ethnically Greek, unlike Hospitaller slaves, whose ethnic origins and religious affiliations were more diverse. The emancipation of Rhodian serfs into the class of marinarii is especially interesting, for the social group formed an intermediate station between serfdom and full emancipation. The Hospitaller Order sometimes granted complete manumissions to its serfs.