- Geneva, New York, United States
Sarah Whitten
Hobart & William Smith Colleges, History, Faculty Member
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Review of Giuseppe Roma (ed.), I Longobardi del Sud. Roma: Giorgio Bretschneider editore, 2010. Pp. 491. ISBN 9788876892523. €140.00 (pb).
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My paper explores how the enslavement of people between southern Italy, Sicily, and North Africa was deeply intertwined with questions of sovereignty during the ninth century. North African mercenaries, raiders, and slavers established... more
My paper explores how the enslavement of people between southern Italy, Sicily, and North Africa was deeply intertwined with questions of sovereignty during the ninth century. North African mercenaries, raiders, and slavers established formal rule in Bari and informal settlements outside of Naples, from where they captured thousands of Italian men and women and sold them into slavery in North Africa. The enslavement of Italians created a serious political crisis for the southern Italian princes, who attempted to stop this practice while continuing other forms of unfreedom (coloni labor and penal slavery). The central argument of my paper is that southern Italian princes rebuilt their sovereignty on the backs of the enslaved by claiming to be the protectors of those Italians enslaved around the Mediterranean World.
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These are the proposed sessions for IMC 2023 at Leeds which are collated and organised under the auspices of Law after Rome: Networks and Connections in the Leges barbarorum which was conceived as a set of papers by Thom Gobbitt and all... more
These are the proposed sessions for IMC 2023 at Leeds which are collated and organised under the auspices of Law after Rome: Networks and Connections in the Leges barbarorum which was conceived as a set of papers by Thom Gobbitt and all the other proposed participants and moderators.
Research Interests: History, Diplomatic History, Gender Studies, Medieval History, Gender History, and 14 moreAnglo-Saxon Studies, Medieval Studies, History of Slavery, Carolingian Studies, Medieval Italy, Medieval Slavery, History of Law, Anglo-Saxon law, Early Medieval Law, Medieval Law, Unfreedom, Medieval Southern Italy and Sicily, Lombard Law, and Carolingian Law
The enslavement of people between southern Italy, Sicily, and North Africa was deeply intertwined with questions of sovereignty during the ninth century. North African mercenaries, raiders, and slavers established formal rule in Bari and... more
The enslavement of people between southern Italy, Sicily, and North Africa was deeply intertwined with questions of sovereignty during the ninth century. North African mercenaries, raiders, and slavers established formal rule in Bari and informal settlements outside of Naples, from where they captured thousands of men and women and sold them into slavery in North Africa. As this created a serious political crisis, southern Italian local rulers attempted to stop this practice while continuing other forms of unfreedom. During the session, we will discuss, among others, about the following central argument: southern Italian princes rebuilt their sovereignty on the backs of the enslaved by claiming to be the protectors of those Italians enslaved around the Mediterranean World.