Slavery in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Slavery in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia write by William D. Phillips. This book was released on 2014. Slavery in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Slavery in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia provides a sweeping survey of the many forms of bound labor in Iberia from ancient times to the decline of slavery in the eighteenth century.
Enemies and Familiars
Enemies and Familiars - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Enemies and Familiars write by Debra Blumenthal. This book was released on 2011-06-15. Enemies and Familiars available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A prominent Mediterranean port located near Islamic territories, the city of Valencia in the late fifteenth century boasted a slave population of pronounced religious and ethnic diversity: captive Moors and penally enslaved Mudejars, Greeks, Tartars, Russians, Circassians, and a growing population of black Africans. By the end of the fifteenth century, black Africans comprised as much as 40 percent of the slave population of Valencia. Whereas previous historians of medieval slavery have focused their efforts on defining the legal status of slaves, documenting the vagaries of the Mediterranean slave trade, or examining slavery within the context of Muslim-Christian relations, Debra Blumenthal explores the social and human dimensions of slavery in this religiously and ethnically pluralistic society. Enemies and Familiars traces the varied experiences of Muslim, Eastern, and black African slaves from capture to freedom. After describing how men, women, and children were enslaved and brought to the Valencian marketplace, this book examines the substance of slaves' daily lives: how they were sold and who bought them; the positions ascribed to them within the household hierarchy; the sorts of labor they performed; and the ways in which some reclaimed their freedom. Scrutinizing a wide array of archival sources (including wills, contracts, as well as hundreds of civil and criminal court cases), Blumenthal investigates what it meant to be a slave and what it meant to be a master at a critical moment of transition. Arguing that the dynamics of the master-slave relationship both reflected and determined contemporary opinions regarding religious, ethnic, and gender differences, Blumenthal's close study of the day-to-day interactions between masters and their slaves not only reveals that slavery played a central role in identity formation in late medieval Iberia but also offers clues to the development of "racialized" slavery in the early modern Atlantic world.
Incarceration and Slavery in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age
Incarceration and Slavery in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Incarceration and Slavery in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age write by Albrecht Classen. This book was released on 2021-10-19. Incarceration and Slavery in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. People in the Middle Ages and the early modern age more often suffered from imprisonment and enslavement than we might have assumed. Incarceration and Slavery in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age approaches these topics from a wide variety of perspectives and demonstrates collectively the great relevance of the issues involved. Both incarceration and slavery were (and continue to be) most painful experiences, and no one was guaranteed exemption from it. High-ranking nobles and royalties were often the victims of imprisonment and, at times, had to wait many years until their ransom was paid. Similarly, slavery existed throughout Christian Europe and in the Arab world. However, while imprisonment occasionally proved to be the catalyst for major writings and creativity, slaves in the Ottoman empire and in Egypt succeeded in rising to the highest position in society (Janissaries, Mamluks, and others).
A History of Afro-Hispanic Language
A History of Afro-Hispanic Language - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A History of Afro-Hispanic Language write by John M. Lipski. This book was released on 2005-03-10. A History of Afro-Hispanic Language available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The African slave trade, beginning in the fifteenth century, brought African languages into contact with Spanish and Portuguese, resulting in the Africans' gradual acquisition of these languages. In this 2004 book, John Lipski describes the major forms of Afro-Hispanic language found in the Iberian Peninsula and Latin America over the last 500 years. As well as discussing pronunciation, morphology and syntax, he separates legitimate forms of Afro-Hispanic expression from those that result from racist stereotyping, to assess how contact with the African diaspora has had a permanent impact on contemporary Spanish. A principal issue is the possibility that Spanish, in contact with speakers of African languages, may have creolized and restructured - in the Caribbean and perhaps elsewhere - permanently affecting regional and social varieties of Spanish today. The book is accompanied by the largest known anthology of primary Afro-Hispanic texts from Iberia, Latin America, and former Afro-Hispanic contacts in Africa and Asia.
Freedom, Imprisonment, and Slavery in the Pre-Modern World
Freedom, Imprisonment, and Slavery in the Pre-Modern World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Freedom, Imprisonment, and Slavery in the Pre-Modern World write by Albrecht Classen. This book was released on 2021-04-19. Freedom, Imprisonment, and Slavery in the Pre-Modern World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Contrary to common assumptions, medieval and early modern writers and poets often addressed the high value of freedom, whether we think of such fable authors as Marie de France or Ulrich Bonerius. Similarly, medieval history knows of numerous struggles by various peoples to maintain their own freedom or political independence. Nevertheless, as this study illustrates, throughout the pre-modern period, the loss of freedom could happen quite easily, affecting high and low (including kings and princes) and there are many literary texts and historical documents that address the problems of imprisonment and even enslavement (Georgius of Hungary, Johann Schiltberger, Hans Ulrich Krafft, etc.). Simultaneously, philosophers and theologians discussed intensively the fundamental question regarding free will (e.g., Augustine) and political freedom (e.g., John of Salisbury). Moreover, quite a large number of major pre-modern poets spent a long time in prison where they composed some of their major works (Boethius, Marco Polo, Charles d'Orléans, Thomas Malory, etc.). This book brings to light a vast range of relevant sources that confirm the existence of this fundamental and impactful discourse on freedom, imprisonment, and enslavement.
