Talk:Slavery in medieval Europe

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[edit] Serfdom

The material on Serfdom was nicely done, but it belongs in the Serfdom article rather than here. Bejnar 21:13, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

The statement that "Slav" is the basis for the word "Slave" contradicts the article on "Slavic People", which notes that this is a false etymology created by Third Reich propoganda.

[They do not contradict each other but matches together. Please review the below statements again carefully. A false etymology, popular in Nazi propaganda, derived "Slav" from "slave"[citation needed]. In fact, the reverse is true. The word slave is derived from Middle Latin sclavus, in turn derived from the ethnonym discussed above, because of the large number of Slavs captured during the raids of Turkic nomads and sold to Europe through slave markets along various routes, see, e.g., saqaliba.]

Also, the subheading of "Thrall" directly contradicts the information given in the main article for "Thrall" that it links to! This one says that a free woman and a thrall produce a free child, and a free man and a thrall woman produce a thrall, but the main article says the exact opposite.

That law is not uniform from country to country -- but in both locations, the legal system involved should be cited. Goldfritha 23:05, 28 July 2006 (UTC)