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: | 978-0-8122-9648-8 |
Publication Date: | Sep 2019 |
Publisher: | University of Pennsylvania Press
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Book Format: | Ebook |
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.