That Most Precious Merchandise The Mediterranean Trade in Black Sea Slaves, 1260-1500 |
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| Author:
| Barker, Hannah |
| Series title: | The Middle Ages Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8122-5154-8 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 2019 |
| Publisher: | University of Pennsylvania Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $84.95 |
Book Description:
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Reading notorial registers, tax records, law, merchants' accounts, travelers' tales and letters, sermons, slave-buying manuals, and literary works as well as treaties governing the slave trade and crusade propaganda, Hannah Barker gives a rich picture of the context in which merchants traded and enslaved people met their fate.
Reading notorial registers, tax records, law, merchants' accounts, travelers' tales and letters, sermons, slave-buying manuals, and literary works as well as treaties governing the slave trade and crusade propaganda, Hannah Barker gives a rich picture of the context in which merchants traded and enslaved people met their fate.