The Cambridge World History of Slavery
Volume 2. AD 500–AD 1420
Part of The Cambridge World History of Slavery
- Editors:
- Craig Perry, Emory University, Atlanta
- David Eltis, Emory University, Atlanta
- Stanley L. Engerman, University of Rochester, New York
- David Richardson, University of Hull
- Date Published: August 2021
- availability: Available
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521840675
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Medieval slavery has received little attention relative to slavery in ancient Greece and Rome and in the early modern Atlantic world. This imbalance in the scholarship has led many to assume that slavery was of minor importance in the Middle Ages. In fact, the practice of slavery continued unabated across the globe throughout the medieval millennium. This volume – the final volume in The Cambridge World History of Slavery – covers the period between the fall of Rome and the rise of the transatlantic plantation complexes by assembling twenty-three original essays, written by scholars acknowledged as leaders in their respective fields. The volume demonstrates the continual and central presence of slavery in societies worldwide between 500 CE and 1420 CE. The essays analyze key concepts in the history of slavery, including gender, trade, empire, state formation and diplomacy, labor, childhood, social status and mobility, cultural attitudes, spectrums of dependency and coercion, and life histories of enslaved people.
Read more- The first multi-author volume written by specialists to cover slavery in a wide variety of medieval contexts around the globe
- Offers comparative coverage of slavery in seventeen different medieval societies and regions as well as thematic chapters on the practice of slavery
- Completes the four-volume set, which is the first attempt to examine the role of slavery across 2.5 millennia of human history
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- Date Published: August 2021
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521840675
- length: 602 pages
- dimensions: 235 x 157 x 36 mm
- weight: 0.99kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
List of figures
Maps
Tables
Contributors
1. Slavery in the medieval millennium Craig Perry, David Eltis, Stanley L. Engerman, and David Richardson
Part I. Captivity and the Slave Trade:
2. The greater Mediterranean slave trade Jeff Fynn-Paul
3. Captivity, ransom, and manumission, 500–1420 Hussein Fancy
4. Forced migrations and slavery in the Mongol empire (1206–1368) Michal Biran
5. The trade in slaves in the Black Sea, Russia, and Eastern Europe Hannah Barker
6. Slavery and the Slave Trade in the Western Indian Ocean Craig Perry
Part II. Race, Sex, and Everyday Life:
7. Child Enslavement in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages Judith Evans Grubbs
8. Intersections of gender, sex, and slavery: female sexual slavery Shaun Marmon
9. Attitudes toward blackness Steven A. Epstein
10. Slavery and agency in the middle ages Craig Perry
Part III. East and South Asia:
11. Slavery in medieval China Don J. Wyatt
12. Slavery in medieval Korea Seung B. Kye
13. Slavery and dependency in medieval South India Leslie C. Orr
Part IV. The Islamic World:
14. Slavery in the Islamic Middle East (c. 600–1000 CE) Matthew S. Gordon
15. Military slavery in medieval North India Ali Anooshahr
16. Slavery in the Mamluk Sultanate Stephan Conermann
17. Slavery in the early modern Ottoman empire Nur Sobers-Khan
Part V. Africa, The Americas, and Europe:
18. Slavery in the Carolingian empire Alice Rio
19. Slavery in the Byzantine empire Noel Lenski
20. Slavery in Northern Europe (Scandinavia and Iceland) and the British Isles, 500–1420 David Wyatt
21. Slavery in medieval Iberia Debra Blumenthal
22. Slavery in Africa c. 500–1500 CE: archaeological and historical perspectives Paul J. Lane
23. Slavery in precontact America Camilla Townsend
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