LEADER 04498nam 2200685 a 450 001 9910456658303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8014-6368-8 024 7 $a10.7591/9780801463686 035 $a(CKB)2550000000039687 035 $a(dli)HEB30480 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000529800 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11318454 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000529800 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10561539 035 $a(PQKB)10304050 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3138157 035 $a(OCoLC)887851058 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse51781 035 $a(DE-B1597)478662 035 $a(OCoLC)979577277 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780801463686 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3138157 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10468036 035 $a(OCoLC)645595799 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000039687 100 $a20081020d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurmnummmmuuuu 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aEnemies and familiars$b[electronic resource] $eslavery and mastery in fifteenth-century Valencia /$fDebra Blumenthal 210 $aIthaca $cCornell University Press$d2009 215 $a1 online resource (xii, 306 p. )$cill., maps ; 225 1 $aConjunctions of religion and power in the medieval past 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8014-4502-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aDefining de bona guerra -- "Talking tools" : slaves in the marketplace -- Slave labors -- Enemies or extended family? : slaves in the household -- Sex and swordplay : slavery and honor -- Paths to freedom -- Living "com a franch," "like a free person". 330 $aA prominent Mediterranean port located near Islamic territories, the city of Valencia in the late fifteenth century boasted a slave population of pronounced religious and ethnic diversity: captive Moors and penally enslaved Mudejars, Greeks, Tartars, Russians, Circassians, and a growing population of black Africans. By the end of the fifteenth century, black Africans comprised as much as 40 percent of the slave population of Valencia.Whereas previous historians of medieval slavery have focused their efforts on defining the legal status of slaves, documenting the vagaries of the Mediterranean slave trade, or examining slavery within the context of Muslim-Christian relations, Debra Blumenthal explores the social and human dimensions of slavery in this religiously and ethnically pluralistic society. Enemies and Familiars traces the varied experiences of Muslim, Eastern, and black African slaves from capture to freedom. After describing how men, women, and children were enslaved and brought to the Valencian marketplace, this book examines the substance of slaves' daily lives: how they were sold and who bought them; the positions ascribed to them within the household hierarchy; the sorts of labor they performed; and the ways in which some reclaimed their freedom. Scrutinizing a wide array of archival sources (including wills, contracts, as well as hundreds of civil and criminal court cases), Blumenthal investigates what it meant to be a slave and what it meant to be a master at a critical moment of transition.Arguing that the dynamics of the master-slave relationship both reflected and determined contemporary opinions regarding religious, ethnic, and gender differences, Blumenthal's close study of the day-to-day interactions between masters and their slaves not only reveals that slavery played a central role in identity formation in late medieval Iberia but also offers clues to the development of "racialized" slavery in the early modern Atlantic world. 410 0$aConjunctions of religion & power in the medieval past. 606 $aSlavery$zSpain$zValencia (Region)$xHistory$yTo 1500 606 $aSlaves$zSpain$zValencia (Region)$xHistory$yTo 1500 606 $aSlaveholders$zSpain$zValencia (Region)$xHistory$yTo 1500 606 $aMaster and servant$zSpain$zValencia (Region)$xHistory$yTo 1500 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aSlavery$xHistory 615 0$aSlaves$xHistory 615 0$aSlaveholders$xHistory 615 0$aMaster and servant$xHistory 676 $a306.3/6209467609024 700 $aBlumenthal$b Debra$f1969-$01011424 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910456658303321 996 $aEnemies and familiars$92343190 997 $aUNINA