Research Catalog

Title

Slavery in the Black Sea Region, c.900-1900 : forms of unfreedom at the intersection between Christianity and Islam / edited by Felicia Roșu.

Publication

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2022]

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Details

Additional Authors

Roşu, Felicia

Description

xxiii, 448 pages : illustrations (some color), maps; 25 cm.

Summary

"Slavery in the Black Sea Region, c.900-1900 explores the Black Sea region as an encounter zone of cultures, legal regimes, religions, and enslavement practices. The topics discussed in the chapters include Byzantine slavery, late medieval slave trade patterns, slavery in Christian societies, Tatar and cossack raids, the position of Circassians in the slave trade, and comparisons with the Mediterranean and the Atlantic. This volume aims to stimulate a broader discussion on the patterns of unfreedom in the Black Sea area and to draw attention to the importance of this region in the broader debates on global slavery"--

Series Statement

Studies in global slavery ; volume 11

Uniform Title

Studies in global slavery ; v. 11.

Subject

• Slavery > Black Sea Coast > History
• Slavery > Black Sea Coast > Religious aspects
• Christianity and other religions > Islam
• Islam > Relations > Christianity
• Christianity
• Interfaith relations
• Islam
• Religion
• Slavery
• Slavery > Religious aspects
• Social conditions
• Black Sea Coast > Social conditions
• Black Sea Coast > Religion
• Asia > Black Sea Coast

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Black Sea slavery in Genoese notarial sources, 13th-15th Centuries / Michel Balard -- Slavery in the Black Sea Region in Venetian notarial sources, 14th-15th centuries / Sergei Karpov -- The role of slaves in the Byzantine economy, 10th-11th centuries : legal aspects / Daphne Penna -- Christian slave traders, slave owners, and slaves in the 13th-15th centuries / Sandra Origone -- The Orthodox Church and the emancipation of Gypsy slaves in the Romanian principalities in the 19th century / Viorel Achim -- "It was the Poles that gave me most pain" : Polish slaves and captives in the Crimea, 1475-1774 / Mikhail Kizilov -- How captives were taken : the making of Tatar slaving raids in the early modern period / Andrzej Gliwa -- Captive-taking in the Ottoman and Crimean Black Sea Region and unfreedom in the northern countries / Maryna Kravets and Victor Ostapchuk -- What caused the 14th-century Tatar-Circassian shift? / Hannah Barker -- Slaves of the Crimean Khan or Muslim warriors? The status of Circassians in the early modern period / Natalia Królikowska-Jedlińska -- People-taking across the Mediterranean maritime frontier, 1675-1714 / Colin Heywood -- Slavery and the slave trade in the Atlantic and the Black Sea : a comparative view / Dariusz Kołodziejczyk.

Call Number

JFE 22-2726

ISBN

• 9789004470712
• 9004470719

LCCN

2021047787

OCLC

1289618257

Title

Slavery in the Black Sea Region, c.900-1900 : forms of unfreedom at the intersection between Christianity and Islam / edited by Felicia Roșu.

Publisher

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2022]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Studies in global slavery ; volume 11

Studies in global slavery ; v. 11.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Roşu, Felicia, editor.

Other Form:

Online version: Slavery in the Black Sea Region, c.900-1900 Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2022] 9789004470897 (DLC) 2021047788

Research Call Number

JFE 22-2726