The Cambridge world history of slavery Volume 2, 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. This imbalance in the scholarship has led many to assume that slavery was of minor importance in the Middle Ages. In fact, the practice of slavery continued unabated across the globe throughout the medieval millennium. This volume – the final volume in The Cambridge World History of Slavery – covers the period between the fall of Rome and the 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 central presence of slavery in societies worldwide between 500 CE and 1420 CE. The essays analyze key concepts in the history of slavery, including gender, trade, empire, state formation and diplomacy, labor, childhood, social status and mobility, cultural attitudes, spectrums of dependency and coercion, and life histories of enslaved people. 04.0_pp_iv_iv_Copyright_page 1 05.0_pp_v_vii_Contents 5 06.0_pp_viii_viii_Figures 8 07.0_pp_ix_x_Contributors 9 08.0_pp_1_24_Slavery_in_the_Medieval_Millennium 11 09.0_pp_25_152_Captivity_and_the_Slave_Trade 35 09.1_pp_27_52_The_Greater_Mediterranean_Slave_Trade 37 09.2_pp_53_75_Captivity_Ransom_and_Manumission_5001420 63 09.3_pp_76_99_Forced_Migrations_and_Slavery_in_the_Mongol_Empire_12061368 86 09.4_pp_100_122_The_Trade_in_Slaves_in_the_Black_Sea_Russia_and_Eastern_Europe 110 09.5_pp_123_152_Slavery_and_the_Slave_Trade_in_the_Western_Indian_Ocean_World 133 10.0_pp_153_268_Race_Sex_and_Everyday_Life 163 10.1_pp_155_184_Child_Enslavement_in_Late_Antiquity_and_the_Middle_Ages 165 10.2_pp_185_213_Intersections_of_Gender_Sex_and_Slavery_Female_Sexual_Slavery 195 10.3_pp_214_239_Attitudes_toward_Blackness 224 10.4_pp_240_268_Slavery_and_Agency_in_the_Middle_Ages 250 11.0_pp_269_334_East_and_South_Asia 279 11.1_pp_271_294_Slavery_in_Medieval_China 281 11.2_pp_295_312_Slavery_in_Medieval_Korea 305 11.3_pp_313_334_Slavery_and_Dependency_in_Medieval_South_India 323 12.0_pp_335_428_The_Islamic_World 345 12.1_pp_337_361_Slavery_in_the_Islamic_Middle_East_c_6001000_CE 347 12.2_pp_362_382_Military_Slavery_in_Medieval_North_India 372 12.3_pp_383_405_Slavery_in_the_Mamluk_Sultanate 393 12.4_pp_406_428_Slavery_in_the_Early_Modern_Ottoman_Empire 416 13.0_pp_429_570_Africa_the_Americas_and_Europe 439 13.1_pp_431_452_Slavery_in_the_Carolingian_Empire 441 13.2_pp_453_481_Slavery_in_the_Byzantine_Empire 463 13.3_pp_482_507_Slavery_in_Northern_Europe_Scandinavia_and_Iceland_and_the_British_Isles_5001420 492 13.4_pp_508_530_Slavery_in_Medieval_Iberia 518 13.5_pp_531_552_Slavery_in_Africa_c_5001500_CE_Archaeological_and_Historical_Perspectives 541 13.6_pp_553_570_Slavery_in_Precontact_America 563 14.0_pp_571_592_Index 581 "Most societies in the past have had slaves, and almost all peoples have at some time in their pasts been both slaves as well as owners of slaves. Recent decades have seen a significant increase in our understanding of the historical role played by slavery and wide interest across a range of academic disciplines in the evolution of the institution. Exciting and innovative research methodologies have been developed, and numerous fruitful debates generated. Further, the study of slavery has come to provide strong connections between academic research and the wider public interest at a time when such links have in general been weak. The Cambridge World History of Slavery responds to these trends by providing for the first time, in four volumes, a comprehensive global history of this widespread phenomenon from the ancient world to the present day. Volume I surveys the history of slavery in the ancient Mediterranean world. Although chapters are devoted to the ancient Near East and the Jews, its principal concern is with the societies of ancient Greece and Rome. These are often considered as the first examples in world history of genuine slave societies because of the widespread prevalence of chattel slavery, which is argued to have been a cultural manifestation of the ubiquitous violence in societies typified by incessant warfare"--Provided by publisher Medieval slavery has received little attention relative to slavery in ancient Greece and Rome and in the early modern Atlantic world. This imbalance in the scholarship has led many to assume that slavery was of minor importance in the Middle Ages. In fact, the practice of slavery continued unabated across the globe throughout the medieval millennium. This volume? the final volume in The Cambridge World History of Slavery? covers the period between the fall of Rome and the 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 central presence of slavery in societies worldwide between 500 CE and 1450 CE. The essays analyze key concepts in the history of slavery, including gender, trade, empire, state formation and diplomacy, labor, childhood, social status and mobility, cultural attitudes, spectrums of dependency and coercion, and life histories of enslaved people This volume is aimed at researchers, teachers, and students who are interested in a global overview of slavery and the slave trade in the period between 500 CE and 1420 CE. Chapters offer current knowledge, present new research, and provide suggestions for further reading.