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Primary Sources Elsewhere

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Selected Bibliography

  • Amitai, Reuven, and Christoph Cluse, eds. Slavery and the Slave Trade in the Eastern Mediterranean (c. 1000-1500 CE). Turnhout: Brepols, 2017.
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  • Decker, Michael. Tilling the Hateful Earth: Agricultural Production and Trade in the Late Antique East. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.
  • Dincer, Aysu. “Enslaving Christians: Greek Slaves in Late Medieval Cyprus.” Mediterranean Historical Review 31, no. 1 (2016): 1-19.
  • Evans, Daniel. “The Slave Coast of Europe.” Slavery and Abolition 6 (1985): 41-58.
  • Evans Grubbs, Judith. “Child Enslavement in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages.” In The Cambridge World History of Slavery, vol. 2, AD 500 – AD 1420, ed. Craig Perry, David Eltis, Stanley Engerman, and David Richardson, 155-184. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021.
  • Fancy, Hussein. “Captivity, Ransom, and Manumission, 500-1420.” In The Cambridge World History of Slavery, vol. 2, AD 500 – AD 1420, ed. Craig Perry, David Eltis, Stanley Engerman, and David Richardson, 53-75. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021.
  • Fynn-Paul, Jeff. “The Greater Mediterranean Slave Trade.” In The Cambridge World History of Slavery, vol. 2, AD 500 – AD 1420, ed. Craig Perry, David Eltis, Stanley Engerman, and David Richardson, 27-52. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021.
  • Glancy, Jennifer. Slavery in Early Christianity. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.
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  • Grubbs, Judith Evans. “Church, State, and Children: Christian and Imperial Attitudes toward Infant Exposure in Late Antiquity.” In The Power of Religion in Late Antiquity, edited by Andrew Cain and Noel Lenski, 119-131. Brookfield: Taylor and Francis, 2009.
  • Harper, Kyle. Slavery in the Late Roman World, AD 275–425: An Economic, Social, and Institutional Study. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
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  • Lenski, Noel. “Slavery in the Byzantine Empire.” In The Cambridge World History of Slavery, vol. 2, AD 500 – AD 1420, ed. Craig Perry, David Eltis, Stanley Engerman, and David Richardson, 453-481. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021.
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  • Marmon, Shaun. “Intersections of Gender, Sex, and Slavery: Female Sexual Slavery.” In The Cambridge World History of Slavery, vol. 2, AD 500 – AD 1420, ed. Craig Perry, David Eltis, Stanley Engerman, and David Richardson, 185-213. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021.
  • McKee, Sally. “Inherited Status and Slavery in Renaissance Italy and Venetian Crete.” Past & Present 182 (2004): 31-53.
  • Melichar, Petra. “God, Slave and a Nun: A Case from Late Medieval Cyprus.” Byzantion 79 (2009): 280-291.
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  • Sarris, Peter. Economy and Society in the Age of Justinian. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
  • Stuard, Susan M. “To Town to Serve: Urban Domestic Slavery in Medieval Ragusa,” in Women and Work in Preindustrial Europe, edited by Barbara Hanawalt, 39-55. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1986.
  • Tougher, Shaun. The Eunuch in Byzantine History and Society. London: Routledge, 2008.
  • Wet, Chris de. Preaching Bondage: John Chrysostom and the Discourse of Slavery in Early Christianity. Oakland: University of California Press, 2015.
  • Wright, Diana Gilliland. “Vade, Sta, Ambula: Freeing Slaves in Fourteenth-Century Crete.” Medieval Encounters 7 (2001): 197-237.

Contributors

Hannah Barker, Colten Cook, Matthew S. Gordon, Zachary Kime, Rena Lauer, Noel Lenski