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The Cambridge World History of Slavery: Volume 2, AD 500-AD 1420

The Cambridge World History of Slavery: Volume 2, AD 500-AD 1420

The Cambridge World History of Slavery: Volume 2, AD 500-AD 1420

The Cambridge World History of Slavery: Volume 2, AD 500-AD 1420

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780521840675
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 08/12/2021
Series: The Cambridge World History of Slavery
Pages: 602
Product dimensions: 6.18(w) x 9.25(h) x 1.42(d)

About the Author

Craig Perry is Assistant Professor in the Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies and the Tam Institute for Jewish Studies at Emory University. His research on slavery in the medieval Middle East has been supported by fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Oxford University, and the Foundation for Jewish Culture.

David Eltis is Emeritus Professor of History at Emory University, and has held visiting appointments at Harvard, Oxford, and Yale Universities. He is author of four prize-winning books and articles on slavery and the slave trade.

Stanley L. Engerman is Emeritus Professor of Economics and former Professor of History at the University of Rochester. He has held visiting appointments at Harvard, Oxford, and Cambridge Universities, and has written over one hundred essays and co-authored or co- edited 25 books on slavery and related subjects. He is a recipient of the Bancroft Prize and the Guggenheim Fellowship.

David Richardson is founder and former director (2004-2012) of the Wilberforce Institute for the study of Slavery and Emancipation, Hull. He has held visiting positions at Harvard and Yale Universities. He has written extensively on transatlantic slavery and its impacts and more recently on contemporary slavery in historical perspective. He authored (with David Eltis) the award winning Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade (Yale, 2010).

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; Index.
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