The Cambridge World History of Slavery: Volume 2, AD 500–AD 1420

In this volume, leading scholars provide essay-length coverage of slavery in a wide variety of medieval contexts around the globe.

Craig Perry (Edited by), David Eltis (Edited by), Stanley L. Engerman (Edited by), David Richardson (Edited by)

9780521840675, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 12 August 2021

602 pages
23.5 x 15.7 x 3.6 cm, 0.99 kg

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.

List of figures
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Contributors
1. Slavery in the medieval millennium Craig Perry, David Eltis, Stanley L. Engerman, and David Richardson
Part I. Captivity and the Slave Trade: 2. The greater Mediterranean slave trade Jeff Fynn-Paul
3. Captivity, ransom, and manumission, 500–1420 Hussein Fancy
4. Forced migrations and slavery in the Mongol empire (1206–1368) Michal Biran
5. The trade in slaves in the Black Sea, Russia, and Eastern Europe Hannah Barker
6. Slavery and the Slave Trade in the Western Indian Ocean Craig Perry
Part II. Race, Sex, and Everyday Life: 7. Child Enslavement in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages Judith Evans Grubbs
8. Intersections of gender, sex, and slavery: female sexual slavery Shaun Marmon
9. Attitudes toward blackness Steven A. Epstein
10. Slavery and agency in the middle ages Craig Perry
Part III. East and South Asia: 11. Slavery in medieval China Don J. Wyatt
12. Slavery in medieval Korea Seung B. Kye
13. Slavery and dependency in medieval South India Leslie C. Orr
Part IV. The Islamic World: 14. Slavery in the Islamic Middle East (c. 600–1000 CE) Matthew S. Gordon
15. Military slavery in medieval North India Ali Anooshahr
16. Slavery in the Mamluk Sultanate Stephan Conermann
17. Slavery in the early modern Ottoman empire Nur Sobers-Khan
Part V. Africa, The Americas, and Europe: 18. Slavery in the Carolingian empire Alice Rio
19. Slavery in the Byzantine empire Noel Lenski
20. Slavery in Northern Europe (Scandinavia and Iceland) and the British Isles, 500–1420 David Wyatt
21. Slavery in medieval Iberia Debra Blumenthal
22. Slavery in Africa c. 500–1500 CE: archaeological and historical perspectives Paul J. Lane
23. Slavery in precontact America Camilla Townsend
Index.

Subject Areas: Slavery & abolition of slavery [HBTS], Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500 [HBLC], General & world history [HBG]