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Concubines and Courtesans
Concubines and Courtesans contains sixteen essays on enslaved and freed women across medieval and pre-modern Islamic social history. The essays consider questions of slavery, gender, social networking, cultural production, sexuality, Islamic family law, and religion in the shaping of Near Eastern and Islamic society over time.
Couleurs de l'esclavage sur les deux rives de la Méditerranée (Moyen Age - XXe siècle)
Si l’esclavage des Noirs présente une indéniable spécificité, il est tout aussi évident que l’institution esclavagiste a été aussi complexe et variée que la polychromie des phénotypes humains. Sans remonter à l’Antiquité gréco-romaine, l’espace méditerranéen avant, pendant et après la traite transatlantique des Africains, est un observatoire de choix sur la fabrique d’esclaves. D’une rive à l’autre de la Méditerranée, nous pouvons observer la coexistence d’esclaves de différentes couleurs, origines, religions. À côté d’Africains arrivés par les traites transsaharienne et atlantique, les marchés d’esclaves se nourrissaient de Slaves, Caucasiens et a...
The Aghlabids and their Neighbors
The first dynasty to mint gold dinars outside of the Abbasid heartlands, the Aghlabid (r. 800-909) reign in North Africa has largely been neglected in the scholarship of recent decades, despite the canonical status of its monuments and artworks in early Islamic art history. The Aghlabids and their Neighbors focuses new attention on this key dynasty. The essays in this volume, produced by an international group of specialists in history, art and architectural history, archaeology, and numismatics, illuminate the Aghlabid dynasty’s interactions with neighbors in the western Mediterranean and its rivals and allies elsewhere, providing a state of the question on early medieval North Africa and...
Disturbing Times
From Kehinde Wiley to W.E.B. Du Bois, from Nubia to Cuba, Willie Doherty's terror in ancient landscapes to the violence of institutional Neo-Gothic, Reagan's AIDS policies to Beowulf fanfiction, this richly diverse volume brings together art historians and literature scholars to articulate a more inclusive, intersectional medieval studies. It will be of interest to students working on the diaspora and migration, white settler colonialism and pogroms, Indigenous studies and decolonial methodology, slavery, genocide, and culturecide. The authors confront the often disturbing legacies of medieval studies and its current failures to own up to those, and also analyze fascist, nationalist, colonia...
That Most Precious Merchandise
The history of the Black Sea as a source of Mediterranean slaves stretches from ancient Greek colonies to human trafficking networks in the present day. At its height during the fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries, the Black Sea slave trade was not the sole source of Mediterranean slaves; Genoese, Venetian, and Egyptian merchants bought captives taken in conflicts throughout the region, from North Africa, sub-Saharan Africa, the Balkans, and the Aegean Sea. Yet the trade in Black Sea slaves provided merchants with profit and prestige; states with military recruits, tax revenue, and diplomatic influence; and households with the service of women, men, and children. Even though Genoa, Veni...
Concubines and Courtesans
Concubines and Courtesans contains sixteen essays that consider, from a variety of viewpoints, enslaved and freed women across medieval and pre-modern Islamic social history. The essays bring together arguments regarding slavery, gender, social networking, cultural production (songs, poetry and instrumental music), sexuality, Islamic family law, and religion in the shaping of Near Eastern and Islamic society over time. They range over nearly 1000 years of Islamic history - from the early, formative period (seventh to tenth century C.E.) to the late Ottoman, Safavid and Mughal eras (sixteenth to eighteenth century C.E.) - and regions from al-Andalus (Islamic Spain) to Central Asia (Timurid Ir...
INTERPRÈTES AU PAYS DU CASTOR
Ce recueil de portraits jette un regard neuf sur le rôle joué par une quinzaine d’interprètes dans la trame culturelle, politique et commerciale du Canada, le « pays du castor ». Il nous fait voyager de l’Atlantique aux Rocheuses et de l’Iroquoisie à l’Arctique. Les hommes et les femmes qui le composent appartiennent à cinq catégories d’interprètes : le compagnon des explorateurs, le collaborateur des autorités civiles, l’officier militaire, l’aide-missionnaire et le trafiquant ou l’émissaire de compagnies de fourrures. En tant qu’acteurs clés des contacts entre Autochtones, Blancs et Inuits, les interprètes occupent une place importante, pourtant méconnue, su...
Il commercio infame
La legittimazione della schiavitù, radicata nella cultura classica e cristiana, venne messa in discussione a partire dal XVIII secolo. Fu un processo lento, che si confrontò con le forme peculiari (di forza lavoro servile importata dall’Africa subsahariana) assunte dall’istituzione con la colonizzazione europea dell’America in età moderna. Un processo in cui furono determinanti fattori economici e politici, ma che sul piano della storia intellettuale conobbe una svolta quando si pose il problema dell’universale riconoscimento dei diritti naturali dell’uomo nella società civile. Di questa storia, che non riguardò soltanto le potenze coloniali, il volume indaga un capitolo inedi...
Orphans and Abandoned Children in European History
In a world dominated by poverty, a central characteristic has been the plight of orphans and abandoned children. Over the centuries, State, Church and individuals have all attempted to tackle the issue, but can we trace any change over the course of time when it comes to the welfare system intended for these disadvantaged children and acts of philanthropy? What kind of social policies did States follow and what were the main differences between countries and regions? Drawing on historical evidence across several centuries and a range of European countries, the contributors to this volume provide a transnational overview.
Gender, Law and Material Culture
This interdisciplinary volume discusses the division of the early modern material world into the important legal, economic, and personal categories of mobile and immobile property, possession, and the rights to usufruct. The chapters describe and compare different modes of acquisition and intergenerational transfer via law and custom. The varying perspectives, including cultural history, legal history, social and economic history, philosophy, and law, allow for a more nuanced understanding of the links between the movability of an object and the gender of the person who owned, possessed, or used it. Case studies and examples come from a wide geographical range, including Norway, England, Sco...
