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THE CAMBRIDGE WORLD HISTORY OF SLAVERY Volume2:ad 500–ad 1420 Medieval slavery has received little attention relative to slavery in ancient Greece and Rome and in the early modern Atlantic world. Thisimbalanceinthescholarshiphasledmanytoassumethatslavery wasofminorimportanceintheMiddleAges.Infact,thepracticeof slaverycontinuedunabatedacrosstheglobethroughoutthemedieval millennium.Thisvolume–thefinalvolumeinTheCambridgeWorld HistoryofSlavery–coverstheperiodbetweenthefallofRomeandthe 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 centralpresenceofslaveryinsocietiesworldwidebetween500CEand 1420 CE. The essays analyze key concepts in the history of slavery, includinggender,trade,empire,stateformationanddiplomacy,labor, childhood,socialstatusandmobility,culturalattitudes,spectrumsof dependencyandcoercion,andlifehistoriesofenslavedpeople. Craig Perry is Assistant Professor in the Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies and the Tam Institute for Jewish StudiesatEmoryUniversity.Hisresearchonslaveryinthemedieval Middle East has been supported by fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Oxford University, and the FoundationforJewishCulture. DavidEltisisEmeritusProfessorofHistoryatEmoryUniversity,and has held visiting appointments at Harvard, Oxford, and Yale Universities. He is author of four prize-winning books and articles onslaveryandtheslavetrade. StanleyL.EngermanisEmeritusProfessorofEconomicsandformer 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 isarecipientoftheBancroftPrizeandtheGuggenheimFellowship. David Richardson is founder and former director (2004–2012) of the WilberforceInstituteforthestudyofSlaveryandEmancipation,Hull University. He has held visiting positions at Harvard and Yale Universities.Hehaswrittenextensivelyontransatlanticslaveryandits impactsandmorerecentlyoncontemporaryslaveryinhistoricalperspec- tive. He authored (with David Eltis) the award winning Atlas of the TransatlanticSlaveTrade(2010). Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. , on , subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781139024723 THE CAMBRIDGE WORLD HISTORY OF SLAVERY Generaleditors DavidEltis,EmoryUniversity StanleyL.Engerman,UniversityofRochester VolumeI:TheAncientMediterraneanWorld EditedbyKeithBradleyandPaulCartledge VolumeII:ad 500–ad 1420 EditedbyCraigPerry,DavidEltis,StanleyL.Engerman,andDavid Richardson VolumeIII:ad 1420–ad 1804 EditedbyDavidEltisandStanleyL.Engerman VolumeIV:ad 1804–ad 2016 EditedbyDavidEltis,StanleyL.Engerman, SeymourDrescher,andDavidRichardson Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. , on , subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781139024723 THE CAMBRIDGE WORLD HISTORY OF SLAVERY VOLUME 2 ad 500–ad 1420 CRAIG PERRY EmoryUniversity DAVIDELTIS EmoryUniversity STANLEYL.ENGERMAN UniversityofRochester DAVIDRICHARDSON UniversityofHull Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. , on , subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781139024723 UniversityPrintingHouse,Cambridgecb28bs,UnitedKingdom OneLibertyPlaza,20thFloor,NewYork,ny10006,USA 477WilliamstownRoad,PortMelbourne,vic3207,Australia 314–321,3rdFloor,Plot3,SplendorForum,JasolaDistrictCentre, NewDelhi–110025,India 79AnsonRoad,#06–04/06,Singapore079906 CambridgeUniversityPressispartoftheUniversityofCambridge. ItfurtherstheUniversity’smissionbydisseminatingknowledgeinthepursuitof education,learning,andresearchatthehighestinternationallevelsofexcellence. www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9780521840675 doi:10.1017/9781139024723 ©CambridgeUniversityPress2021 Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthewritten permissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. Firstpublished2021 PrintedintheUnitedKingdombyTJBooksLimited,PadstowCornwall AcataloguerecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. isbn978-0-521-84067-5Hardback CambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityforthepersistenceoraccuracyof URLsforexternalorthird-partyinternetwebsitesreferredtointhispublication anddoesnotguaranteethatanycontentonsuchwebsitesis,orwillremain, accurateorappropriate. Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. , on , subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781139024723 CONTENTS ListofFigures,Maps,andTables pageviii ListofContributors ix 1 SlaveryintheMedievalMillennium 1 craig perry, david eltis, stanley l. engerman, and david richardson part i: captivity and the slave trade 25 2 TheGreaterMediterraneanSlaveTrade 27 jeff fynn-paul 3 Captivity,Ransom,andManumission,500–1420 53 hussein fancy 4 ForcedMigrationsandSlaveryintheMongolEmpire (1206–1368) 76 michal biran 5 TheTradeinSlavesintheBlackSea,Russia,andEastern Europe 100 hannah barker 6 SlaveryandtheSlaveTradeintheWesternIndianOcean World 123 craig perry part ii: race, sex, and everyday life 153 7 ChildEnslavementinLateAntiquityandtheMiddleAges 155 judith evans grubbs v Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. , on , subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781139024723 vi contents 8 IntersectionsofGender,Sex,andSlavery:FemaleSexualSlavery 185 shaun marmon 9 AttitudestowardBlackness 214 steven a. epstein 10 SlaveryandAgencyintheMiddleAges 240 craig perry part iii: east and south asia 269 11 SlaveryinMedievalChina 271 don j. wyatt 12 SlaveryinMedievalKorea 295 seung b. kye 13 SlaveryandDependencyinMedievalSouthIndia 313 leslie c. orr part iv: the islamic world 335 14 SlaveryintheIslamicMiddleEast(c.600–1000ce) 337 matthew s. gordon 15 MilitarySlaveryinMedievalNorthIndia 362 ali anooshahr 16 SlaveryintheMamlukSultanate 383 stephan conermann 17 SlaveryintheEarlyModernOttomanEmpire 406 nur sobers-khan part v: africa, the americas, and europe 429 18 SlaveryintheCarolingianEmpire 431 alice rio 19 SlaveryintheByzantineEmpire 453 noel lenski Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. , on , subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781139024723 contents vii 20 SlaveryinNorthernEurope(ScandinaviaandIceland) andtheBritishIsles,500–1420 482 david wyatt 21 SlaveryinMedievalIberia 508 debra blumenthal 22 SlaveryinAfricac.500–1500ce:Archaeological andHistoricalPerspectives 531 paul j. lane 23 SlaveryinPrecontactAmerica 553 camilla townsend Index 571 Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. , on , subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781139024723 FIGURES Figures 3.1 MosaicinthechurchofSanTommasoinFormis,Rome (c.1210) page 54 9.1 SaintMaurice,MagdeburgCathedral(thirteenthcentury) 222 9.2 MosaicfromVercelli,Italy(eleventhcentury) 223 9.3 MosaicinthechurchofSanTommasoinFormis,Rome (c.1210) 226 19.1 SlavepricesintheByzantineEmpire,c.300–1453 (infourth-centurysolidiequivalent) 468 19.2 AttestedslavesalesintheByzantineEmpirebygender, 300–1400 469 Maps 5.1 MajorlocationsconnectedtotheBlackSeaslavetrade 106 22.1 Locationofkeysitesandplacesinthetrans-Saharanslave trade 537 23.1 Mesoamericanpoliticalrelations,c.1500 556 Tables 9.1 WomenslavesinGenoabyethnicityandprice,15–30yearsold 235 19.1 ThefrequencyofmentionsofslavesandslaveryinByzantine lawcodes 476 viii Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. , on , subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781139024723 CONTRIBUTORS AliAnooshahr,DepartmentofHistory,UniversityofCaliforniaatDavis Hannah Barker, School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies,ArizonaStateUniversity MichalBiran,DepartmentofAsianStudiesandtheDepartmentofIslamic andMiddleEasternStudies,TheHebrewUniversityofJerusalem Debra Blumenthal, Department of History, University of California at SantaBarbara Stephan Conermann, Department of Near Eastern History and Languages,UniversityofBonn DavidEltis,DepartmentofHistory,EmoryUniversity StanleyL.Engerman,DepartmentofEconomics,UniversityofRochester StevenA.Epstein,DepartmentofHistory,UniversityofKansas JudithEvansGrubbs,DepartmentofHistory,EmoryUniversity HusseinFancy,DepartmentofHistory,UniversityofMichigan JeffFynn-Paul,InstituteforHistory,LeidenUniversity MatthewS.Gordon,DepartmentofHistory,MiamiUniversity SeungB.Kye,DepartmentofHistory,SogangUniversity PaulJ.Lane,DepartmentofArchaeology,UniversityofCambridge NoelLenski,DepartmentsofClassicsandHistory,YaleUniversity ShaunMarmon,DepartmentofReligion,PrincetonUniversity LeslieC.Orr,DepartmentofReligionsandCultures,ConcordiaUniversity CraigPerry,DepartmentofMiddleEasternandSouthAsianStudiesand theTamInstituteforJewishStudies,EmoryUniversity ix Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. , on , subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781139024723 x list of contributors David Richardson, Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation,UniversityofHull AliceRio,DepartmentofHistory,King’sCollegeLondon Nur Sobers-Khan, Department of Asian and African Collections, The BritishLibrary CamillaTownsend,DepartmentofHistory,RutgersUniversity David Wyatt, School of History, Archaeology and Religion, Cardiff University DonJ.Wyatt,DepartmentofHistory,MiddleburyCollege Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. , on , subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781139024723
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