Slavery and the Slave Trade in the Eastern Mediterranean (c. 1000-1500 ce)

✍ Scribed by Reuven Amitai; Christoph Cluse

• Publisher: Brepols
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 488
• Series: Mediterranean Nexus 1100-1700, 5
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ("Table of Contents", "Acknowledgements", "Map"), p. 1

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Slavery and the Slave Trade in the Eastern Mediterranean (c. 1000-1500 ce): Introduction, p. 11
Christoph Cluse, Reuven Amitai
https://doi.org/10.1484/M.MEDNEX-EB.5.112538

Part 1. Religious and Cultural Contexts

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, p. 31
Norman Housley
https://doi.org/10.1484/M.MEDNEX-EB.5.112539

Slavery in Islam: Legal Norms and Social Practice, p. 51
Kurt Franz
https://doi.org/10.1484/M.MEDNEX-EB.5.112540

The Slave Trade in the Geniza Society, p. 143
Miriam Frenkel
https://doi.org/10.1484/M.MEDNEX-EB.5.112541

Slavery and the Slave Trade in Byzantium in the Palaeologan Period, p. 163
Johannes Pahlitzsch
https://doi.org/10.1484/M.MEDNEX-EB.5.112542

Part 2. The Mamluk Phenomenon

Some Notes Concerning the Trade and Education of Slave-Soldiers during the Mamluk Era, p. 187
Yehoshua Frenkel
https://doi.org/10.1484/M.MEDNEX-EB.5.112543

The Early Experience of the Mamluk in the First Period of the Mamluk Sultanate (1250-1382 ce), p. 213
Amir Mazor
https://doi.org/10.1484/M.MEDNEX-EB.5.112544

Part 3. Latins in the Eastern Slave Trade

Slavery in the Latin Mediterranean (Thirteenth to Fifteenth Centuries): The Case of Genoa, p. 235
Michel Balard
https://doi.org/10.1484/M.MEDNEX-EB.5.112545

The Venetian Involvement in the Black Sea Slave Trade (Fourteenth to Fifteenth Centuries), p. 255
Danuta Quirini-Popławska
https://doi.org/10.1484/M.MEDNEX-EB.5.112546

Differentiated Legality: Venetian Slave Trade in Alexandria, p. 299
Georg Christ
https://doi.org/10.1484/M.MEDNEX-EB.5.112547

The Catalan Company and the Slave Trade, p. 321
Ernest Marcos Hierro
https://doi.org/10.1484/M.MEDNEX-EB.5.112548

Le transport des esclaves dans le monde méditerranéen médiéval, p. 353
Michel Balard
https://doi.org/10.1484/M.MEDNEX-EB.5.112549

Caffa and the Slave Trade during the First Half of the Fifteenth Century, p. 375
Annika Stello
https://doi.org/10.1484/M.MEDNEX-EB.5.112550

Part 4. A New Look at the Ehrenkreutz Thesis

Between the Slave Trade and Diplomacy: Some Aspects of Early Mamluk Policy in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Black Sea, p. 401
Reuven Amitai
https://doi.org/10.1484/M.MEDNEX-EB.5.112551

The Nature and Role of the Slave Traders in the Eastern Mediterranean during the Third Reign of Sultan al-Nāṣir Muḥammad b. Qalāwūn (1310-41 ce), p. 423
Jenia Yudkevich
https://doi.org/10.1484/M.MEDNEX-EB.5.112552

The Role of the Slave Trade in the De recuperanda Treatises around 1300, p. 437
Christoph Cluse
https://doi.org/10.1484/M.MEDNEX-EB.5.112553

Back Matter, p. 471