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Slavery touched many aspects of Mamluk society. This volume focuses on the role of slaves within the family, from birth to purchase, liberation, and death. It investigates domestic slavery in Syrian and Egyptian society from the... more
Slavery touched many aspects of Mamluk society. This volume focuses on the role of slaves within the family, from birth to purchase, liberation, and death. It investigates domestic slavery in Syrian and Egyptian society from the thirteenth to the fifteenth century. Jan Hagedorn focuses on the agency of slaves in the context of master-slave relationships within households and in wider society. He argues that the ability of slaves to shape the world around them was underpinned by a constant process of negotiation within the master-slave relationship and that intermediaries such as the court system channelled the agency of slaves. The principal sources for this study are purchase contracts, listening certificates, marriage contracts, and estate inventories in combination with scribal, market inspection, and slave purchase manuals as well as chronicles.
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A poster announcing the sessions on slavery at the Leeds IMC
Research Interests: History, European History, Economic History, Gender Studies, Social Sciences, and 18 moreMedieval History, Middle East Studies, Gender History, Medieval Studies, Migration, Slavery, History of Slavery, Mediterranean Studies, History of slavery and migration movements, Medieval Archaeology, Islamic Studies, Social History, Islamic History, Medieval Slavery, Ancient Slavery, History of slavery in the Mediterrenean, Legal History of Slavery and its Abolition, and Roman Slavery
Sessions and abstracts for papers on slavery to be presented at the Leeds IMC 2016
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Program information (including abstracts) for sessions on slavery organized for the Leeds International Medieval Congress 2016
Research Interests: History, Economic History, Gender Studies, Social Sciences, Medieval History, and 21 moreGender History, Medieval Studies, Legal History, Slavery, History of Slavery, Medieval Islam, History of slavery and migration movements, Abolition of Slavery, Medieval Archaeology, Islamic Studies, Medieval Europe, Slave Trade, Social History, Islamic History, Medieval Islamic History, Medieval Slavery, Islamic Law and Slavery, Middle Ages, Ancient Slavery, History of slavery in the Mediterrenean, and Roman Slavery
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This study investigates domestic slavery in Syrian and Egyptian society from the thirteenth century to the fifteenth century. It focuses on the agency of slaves in the context of master-slave relationships within households and in wider... more
This study investigates domestic slavery in Syrian and Egyptian society from the thirteenth century to the fifteenth century. It focuses on the agency of slaves in the context of master-slave relationships within households and in wider society. It argues that the ability of slaves to shape the world around them was underpinned by a constant process of negotiation within the master-slave relationship and that intermediaries such as the court system channelled the agency of slaves. The principal sources for this study are purchase contracts, listening certificates, marriage contracts, and estate inventories in combination with scribal, market inspection, and slave purchase manuals as well as chronicles. The structure of the study broadly follows the life cycle of slaves from importation to integration, accommodation, procreation, the possibility of manumission, and death. The first chapter investigates the topography and the commercial practices of slave markets, where owners chose slaves and initiated a deeply unequal personal bond which assigned a new function and identity to newly imported slaves. The second chapter provides two case studies based on manuscript collections in order to historicize and problematize the patterns set out previously. The third chapter studies the social integration of slaves and freed slaves on the basis of listening certificates. It argues that the slave population consisted mainly of imported Ethiopian and Turkish slaves who were highly integrated into urban society. The fourth chapter discusses the sexual dimension of domestic slavery by focusing on concubinage, marriage, and slave procreation. It brings together a range of documentary and legal sources to provide case studies of strategies of accommodation and resistance. The fifth chapter investigates manumission and its impact on the household dynamics of slavery. The sixth and final chapter analyses a collection of estate inventories of freed slaves and discusses the continuity of master-slave relations after manumission.