Ancillary Evidence for the Decline of Medieval Slavery

Stuard, Susan Mosher

doi:10.1093/past/149.1.3

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“…It does not, however, mirror the later medieval trend, noted by Susan Mosher Stuard, for girls rather than boys to be enslaved. [79] Given the difficulties of distinguishing clearly between adoption and slavery in the earlier period, this contrast may be due to the lack of comparable evidence, or may indeed support her argument for the shift away from a mixed, servile workforce to more specialised, female domestic labour.…”

Section: Stepchildren and Adoptionmentioning

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‘The light of my eyes’: medieval motherhood in the mediterranean [1]

Skinner

1997

Women's History Review

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Section: Stepchildren and Adoptionmentioning

confidence: 98%

‘The light of my eyes’: medieval motherhood in the mediterranean [1]

Skinner

1997

Women's History Review

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“…Runaways were severely punished, and the law made specific provisions for slave owners whose human property absconded or was damaged or killed. Girls and women captured in the mountains were brought into Ragusa and broken in as domestic slaves: taught the essential skills of running a household, given new names, and trained in a new sociocultural system in which their docility, loyalty, and hard work were rewarded (Stuard 1995). Deracination, via names, language, dress, habits, and corporeal comportment, was essential to the success of Ragusa's reputation as the preeminent slave training and trading center.…”

Section: The Concept Of Parasitism and The Case Of Romementioning

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“…Deracination, via names, language, dress, habits, and corporeal comportment, was essential to the success of Ragusa's reputation as the preeminent slave training and trading center. The more these women and girls were successfully remade into docile domestics, the more they could fulfill the owners' fantasies of control, loyalty, household stability, and prosperity (Stuard 1995). They could also be sexually violated, physically punished, and sold away at their owners' whim.…”

Section: The Concept Of Parasitism and The Case Of Romementioning

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Long-range continuities in comparative and historical sociology: The case of parasitism and women’s enslavement

Greenland

2019

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In this methods-building article, I show how attention to long-term continuities in female enslavement patterns helps us understand the emergence of the Black Atlantic. Slavery, I argue, is one form of human parasitism. I extend Orlando Patterson's theory of human parasitism to examine the phenomenon of parasitic intertwining, wherein the forced labor of women became integral to broader social projects including household functioning, elite status maintenance, and population expansion. The thousand-year period between the fall of Rome and the rise of the transatlantic slave trade was once described as a rupture in European slavery, with serfdom gradually supplanting slavery. The mass capture, transport, and enslavement of women, however, continued even as male slaves and ex-slaves gained significant status changes. The entrenchment of women in zonal slave trades generated both a potent cultural logic and a structural blueprint for the transatlantic trade.

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“…The reality of life for the colonized Jewish subject in Crete is highlighted by the entangled marital and business history of the female convert to Christianity studied by Lauer (2014). Further East, Genoese merchant records from the Crimea testify to numerous sales of women, with and without children, and there is no doubt that their potential as sexual partners contributed to their value as a commodity (Skinner and van Houts 2011: 63-9;Stuard 1995). The Florentine merchant Gregorio Dati cheerfully acknowledged the son he had fathered with a slave in Barcelona, and sent for that son to be educated into the family business.…”

Section: Conquest -Appropriation Of Bodily Servicesmentioning

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Sexuality

Skinner¹

2019

A Cultural History of Western Empires in the Middle Ages

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Medieval sexuality has been the focus of substantial recent commentary from a number of perspectives. Ruth Mazo Karras (2005: 5) usefully defines sexuality as "[the] whole realm of human erotic experience-the meanings that people place on sex acts, not the acts themselves-not the history of sex." These meanings have been explored by medievalists from different directions (Bullough and Brundage 1996; Harper and Proctor 2008; Evans 2011). In older scholarship, the range and repetition of ecclesiastical regulation, commentaries and penitentials dealing with sexual behavior attracted the attention of James Brundage (1985, 1987). These are revealing of changing ideas not only of what constituted a valid marriage, but also of changing attitudes to the sexuality of priests, for whom chastity was increasingly emphasized (and required) from the eleventh century onwards. Brundage also briefly explored the regulation of sexual activity on the First Crusade, to which we shall return. The possibilities of [mainly male] same-sex relationships in the medieval past were the focus of early work by Michael Goodich (1979) and John Boswell (1980, 1994), and then of their critics, who highlighted the relative absence of women in the formulations set up (Murray 1996; Sautman and Sheingorn 2001; Lochrie 2005). Feminist interventions highlighted women's relationships, but the limitations of the gender binary also led to further reflections on male-male relationships and the transgender possibilities open to medieval people (Herdt 1996; Puff 2013). Medievalists have drawn heavily onand critiquedMichel Foucault's (1990) formulation of individual and collective sexual history evolving from a sexual act to a sexual identity (a

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Ancillary Evidence for the Decline of Medieval Slavery

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‘The light of my eyes’: medieval motherhood in the mediterranean [1]

‘The light of my eyes’: medieval motherhood in the mediterranean [1]

Long-range continuities in comparative and historical sociology: The case of parasitism and women’s enslavement

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