That most precious merchandise : the Mediterranean trade in Black Sea slaves, 1260-1500 /

Reading notorial registers, tax records, law, merchants' accounts, travelers' tales and letters, sermons, slave-buying manuals, and literary works as well as treaties governing the slave trade and crusade propaganda, Hannah Barker gives a rich picture of the context in which merchants trad...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Barker, Hannah, 1983- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2019]
Édition:First edition.
Collection:Middle Ages series.
Sujets:
To 1500
Slave trade > Mediterranean Region > History > To 1500.
Slavery > Mediterranean Region > History > To 1500.
HISTORY > Medieval.
Slave trade.
Slavery.
Mediterranean Region.
European History.
History.
Medieval and Renaissance Studies.
World History.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Maps
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. Slavery in the Late Medieval Mediterranean
  • Chapter 2. Difference and the Perception of Slave Status
  • Chapter 3. Societies with Slaves: Genoa, Venice, and the Mamluk Sultanate
  • Chapter 4. The Slave Market and the Act of Sale
  • Chapter 5. Making Slaves in the Black Sea
  • Chapter 6. Constraining Disorder: Merchants, States, and the Structure of the Slave Trade
  • Chapter 7. Crusade, Embargo, and the Trade in Mamluk Slaves
  • Conclusion
  • Abbreviations
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments

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