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Magdalena Coline : A Life Beyond Slavery in Mediterranean Europe.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Smail, Daniel Lord.
- Series:
- The Lawrence Stone Lectures
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (273 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2025.
- Summary:
- The courtroom drama that denied the legitimacy of slavery in late medieval Europe In 1387, a young Muslim woman from North Africa was captured on a galley in the Bay of Naples and brought to Marseille as a slave.For more than ten years, she was held in bondage to a shipwright and privateer named Peire Huguet.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Contents
- List of Illustrations and Tables
- Conventions
- Dramatis Personae
- Prologue: The Spoils of War
- 1. Practices of Slavery
- The Topography of Servitude
- Slavery and Gender
- A Marginal Phenomenon?
- Slavery as a Social Fact
- 2. Slavery in Marseille, 1248-1491
- Slavery Comes to Marseille
- The Anomalous Register of 1248
- The Tatar Phase
- Vectors
- The Slave Owners
- Lives Beyond
- Catherina of Tartary
- 3. Peire the Privateer
- An Obscure Lineage
- Peire the Privateer
- Peire's Partners
- The Women of the Family Huguet
- 4. The Expedition to Naples
- The Revolt of Provence
- The Dogs of War
- The Expedition to Naples
- The End of Angevin Patronage
- 5. Magdalena Comes to Marseille
- Off the Roads of Naples
- Amazigh Origins?
- In the House of Peire and Bertomieua
- 6. The Wheel of Fortune
- A Litigious Man
- Falling Out with Antoni de Lueys
- The Abyss of Debt
- Sitting on a Man
- 7. Magdalena Gets Married
- Why Now?
- Dowry Makes Free
- Manumission and Marriage
- Forgetting
- 8. Magdalena the Moneylender
- Money and Credit
- The Neighborhood Pawnbroker
- Women Lend Money
- Magdalena Learns How
- 9. Alaeta and Her Friend
- Magdalena's Network
- Alaeta the Highlander
- Setting Up House
- 10. A Roll of the Dice
- Magdalena Speaks
- Peire's Bind
- The Neighbors Vote
- Justice Bends Toward Magdalena
- A Servile Bitch
- 11. A Pyrrhic Victory
- Legal Peril
- Peire Is Undone, Again
- The King Rules
- Coda: Bertran Gombert
- 12. Afterlives
- The Corridors of Time
- There Was Slavery on French Soil
- Magdalena Moves On
- A Shattered Man
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-691-25383-8
- OCLC:
- 1535401709
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