Slavery and the slave trade in the Eastern Mediterranean : (c. 1000-1500 CE) / edited by Reuven Amitai and Christoph Cluse.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Amitai, Reuven, editor.

Cluse, Christoph, editor.

Series:

Mediterranean nexus 1100-1700 (Series) ; 5.

Mediterranean nexus 1100-1700 (Series) ; 5

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Slavery--Mediterranean Region--History.

Slavery.

Mediterranean Region--Social conditions--Congresses.

Mediterranean Region.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (487 pages) : map

Place of Publication:

Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, [2017]

Language Note:

Contributions in English with 1 in French.

Summary:

"Slavery has played a significant role in the history of human society, not the least in the greater Mediterranean region, since ancient times. Long neglected by mainstream historians, the medieval history of slavery has received an increasing amount of attention by scholars, since the pioneering work of Charles Verlinden (1907-1996). Today historians have generally laid to rest the nineteenth-century preoccupation with whether slavery was a significant 'mode of production' in the post-classical period, to concentrate on the changing face of the institution over time by looking at legal norms, linguistic representations and social practice. This volume presents a multi-faceted and interdisciplinary approach to slavery and the slave trade in the Eastern Mediterranean region in the pre-modern period, placing these into a larger historical and cultural context. It surveys the significance of slavery in the three monotheistic traditions, the involvement of Eastern and Western merchants and other agents in the slave trade, and offers new interpretations concerning the nature of this commerce."-- Publisher's website.

Contents:

Slavery and the Slave Trade in the Eastern Mediterranean (c. 1000-1500 CE): Introduction / Christoph Cluse and Reuven Amitai

Crusading and Latin-Muslim Contacts in the Eastern Mediterranean: the Religious, Diplomatic and Juridical Frameworks and their Implications for the Study of the Slave Trade / Norman Housley

Slavery in Islam: Legal Norms and Social Practice / Kurt Franz

The Slave Trade in the Geniza Society / Miriam Frenkel

Slavery and the Slave Trade in Byzantium in the Palaeologan Period / Johannes Pahlitzsch

Some Notes Concerning the Trade and Education of Slave-Soldiers during the Mamluk Era / Yehoshua Frenkel

The Early Experience of the Mamluk in the First Period of the Mamluk Sultanate (1250-1382 CE) / Amir Mazor

Slavery in the Latin Mediterranean (Thirteenth to Fifteenth Centuries): The Case of Genoa / Michel Balard

The Venetian Involvement in the Black Sea Slave Trade (Fourteenth to Fifteenth Centuries) / Danuta Quirini-Popławska

Differentiated Legality: Venetian Slave Trade in Alexandria / Georg Christ

The Catalan Company and the Slave Trade / Ernest Marcos Hierro

Le transport des esclaves dans le monde méditerranéen médiéval / Michel Balard

Caffa and the Slave Trade during the First Half of the Fifteenth Century / Annika Stello

Between the Slave Trade and Diplomacy: Some Aspects of Early Mamluk Policy in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Black Sea /Reuven Amitai

The Nature and Role of the Slave Traders in the Eastern Mediterranean during the Third Reign of Sultan al-Nāṣir Muḥammad b. Qalāwūn (1310-1341 CE) / Jenia Yudkevich

The Role of the Slave Trade in the De recuperanda Treatises around 1300 / Christoph Cluse.

Notes:

Based on a conference held at the University of Trier, September 7-9, 2009.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

2-503-57020-8