Ser y vivir esclavo: Identidad, aculturación y agency (Mundos Mediterraneos y Atlanticos, Siglos XIII–XVIII), ed. Fabienne P. Guillén and Roser Salicruú i Lluch

Abstract

The study of slavery, and especially of slavery in the Mediterranean, is one of the most dynamic fields of medieval and early modern studies, with scholars in both Europe and the Anglo-American world producing innovative studies that break through long-established presumptions and long-standing but obsolete binaries (such as between enslaved and free, or Islam and Christendom). This is due in part to the training that many graduate students now receive, which enables them to compare sources from both the Islamic and Christian worlds, in part to the analysis of hitherto neglected sources, and in part due to the innovations in methodology and perspective that are emerging both out of interdisciplinary approaches and the cross-pollination of scholars of various national and regional traditions who see themselves working in a Mediterranean or Atlantic, rather than a national, frame. Fabienne Guillén and Roser Salicrú i Lluch’s volume gathers together thirteen essays on various aspects of Mediterranean and Atlantic slavery, bookended by introductory and concluding essays.