HIST 522: SLAVERY IN THE MIDDLE AGES
Fall 2024 · Section 001 · CRN 16884
Graduate reading seminar focuses on the forms of unfreedom in the Middle Ages, 500-1500 CE, with a focus on Islamic and Christian Mediterranean, especially Iberia. Topics will include transition from slavery to serfdom, persistence of domestic slavery, religion as the ideological basis of slavery, sexual exploitation of enslaved women, piracy and human trafficking, and the similarities/differences between the medieval and modern forms of unfreedom.
- Credits
- 3
- Instructors
- Maya Irish