College and University

If you are a university instructor who has used materials from this website in your classroom and you have pedagogical suggestions or reflections to share, we welcome your contributions. We are especially interested in reflections about teaching online! Please contact medieval.slavery.captivity [at] gmail.com.

Teaching Ideas, Suggestions, and Reflections

• How to use Consorts of the Caliphs for teaching (Sean Anthony, Ohio State, Dept. of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures)
• Proseminar “Slavery in the Medieval Mediterranean (1350-1750)” (Corinna Peres, University of Vienna)
• Teaching Slavery and Patronage in the Ottoman Empire (Patricia Blessing, Princeton University, Dept. of Art and Archaeology)

Online Lectures and Videos

• Juan Latino and the history of slavery in Renaissance Spain (Aurelia Martín Casares, University of Granada, Dept. of Social Anthropology) [in English with Spanish subtitles]

Additional Resources

• P. Gabrielle Foreman et al., “Writing About Slavery/Teaching About Slavery: This Might Help” community-sourced document
• H-Slavery Syllabus Database
• H-Slavery Topical Guide: Singing Slave Women in the Medieval Islamic Court (Lisa Nielson, Dept. of Music, Case Western Reserve University)
• Youval Rotman’s Map of the Medieval Slave Trade, 9th-11th Century

Contributors

Patricia Blessing, Aurelia Martín Casares, Craig Perry