Slavery and Slave Trade in Medieval Mediterranean Society

Sponsoring Organization(s)

Hill Museum&Manuscript Library (HMML)

Organizer Name

Daniel K. Gullo

Organizer Affiliation

Hill Museum & Manuscript Library

Presider Name

Shannon N. Godlove

Presider Affiliation

Columbus State Univ.

Paper Title 1

Slavery along the Christian-Andalusí Borderlands

Presenter 1 Name

Yasmine Beale-Rivaya

Presenter 1 Affiliation

Texas State Univ.-San Marcos

Paper Title 2

On the Slaves' Network of Communication in the Ottoman Crimea

Presenter 2 Name

Oleksander Halenko

Presenter 2 Affiliation

Institute of History of Ukraine, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

Paper Title 3

Observations on Slavery and the Slave Trade in Late Medieval Malta

Presenter 3 Name

Daniel K. Gullo

Start Date

14-5-2015 3:30 PM

Session Location

Schneider 2345

Description

This session will provide a forum for scholars to discuss slavery and the slave trade as part of the ongoing reevaluation of race, ethnicity, and socio-economic development of the medieval Mediterranean. The detailed studies by Debra Blumenthal, William Phillips, Youval Rotman, and Cristoph Cluse among many other leading scholars have demonstrated how slavery was fundamental to the economic and social life of Mediterranean Christian, Muslim, and Jewish communities. This session will focus on the role slavery as an economic force linking disparate religious and ethnic communities across religions and kingdoms, where the role of unpaid, forced labor provided a common economic and cultural relationship between Muslim and Christian communities controlling the Mediterranean Sea.

Matthew Z. Heintzelman