That Most Precious Merchandise: The Mediterranean Trade in Black Sea Slaves, 1260-1500

Hannah Barker

Published by University of Pennsylvania Press 2020

That Most Precious Merchandise

The Mediterranean Trade in Black Sea Slaves, 1260-1500

Hannah Barker

In the series The Middle Ages Series

https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812296488

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About this book

Reading notorial registers, tax records, law, merchants' accounts, travelers' tales and letters, sermons, slave-buying manuals, and literary works as well as treaties governing the slave trade and crusade propaganda, Hannah Barker gives a rich picture of the context in which merchants traded and enslaved people met their fate.

Author / Editor information

Hannah Barker teaches history at Arizona State University.

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"Exhaustively researched, meticulously argued, and beautifully written, That Most Precious Merchandise engages questions hotly debated among historians about how 'premoderns' conceptualized and understood differences between peoples. At the same time, it conclusively demonstrates how the slave markets of medieval Italy and Mamluk Egypt were two branches of a single system."—Debra Blumenthal, University of California, Santa Barbara

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Maps Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter 1. Slavery in the Late Medieval Mediterranean Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	12
Chapter 2. Difference and the Perception of Slave Status Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	39
Chapter 3. Societies with Slaves: Genoa, Venice, and the Mamluk Sultanate Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	61
Chapter 4. The Slave Market and the Act of Sale Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	92
Chapter 5. Making Slaves in the Black Sea Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	121
Chapter 6. Constraining Disorder: Merchants, States, and the Structure of the Slave Trade Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	152
Chapter 7. Crusade, Embargo, and the Trade in Mamluk Slaves Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	186
Conclusion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	209
Abbreviations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	213
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	215
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	271
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	303
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	313

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Language: English
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 328
Illustrations
- Other: 18 illus.
Keywords: History; Medieval and Renaissance Studies; European History; World History

eBook

Published: September 27, 2019
ISBN: 9780812296488