Slavery in Premodern Europe (HISTORY 219)

3–5 credits · Graduate

What did it mean to be "free" or "enslaved" in premodern Europe? How did bondage and forced labor differ from late antiquity to the ninth century, or from the ninth to the fourteenth century? How did they differ across geographies, people groups, and religious traditions? This History colloquium focuses on the most recent scholarship concerning slavery in pre-modern Europe to reflect on such questions, while examining the implications of the "global turn" for historiographies of European slavery.