Slavery and the Slave Trade in the Eastern Mediterranean (c . 1000-1500 ce) Volume 5

"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 Front Matter ("Table of Contents", "Acknowledgements", "Map"), p. 1 Free Access 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 Slavery was an important component of medieval life, certainly so in the Mediterranean basin and nearby lands. Muslims, Christians and Jews all owned slaved, and slave traders hailed from a variety of locations across the region. Slaves entered the Mediterranean from the Black Sea basin and the nearby steppes and as local prisoners of war and captives of raiding, as well as from Bilad al-Sudan, the Land of the Blacks stretching across Sub-Saharan Africa. In the Eastern Mediterranean of the later Middle Ages, many slaves were employed in domestic work, and only occasionally in farming or other forms of production. In the Islamic countries of this region we also find military slaves, mostly of Turkish origin hailing from the Eurasian Steppes, and generally known as Mamluks. This volume contains innovative studies that look at various aspects of slavery and the slave trade in the Eastern Mediterranean between about 1000-1500 overviews of slavery in the different religious traditions, examinations of the role of the Italian merchant cities - mainly Venice and Genoa - in this trade, the nature of Mamluk military slavery and aspects of the commerce in these so-called slave soldiers. "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."-- 4e de couverture