Date/Time
Date(s) - 7 Apr 2016
5:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Location
Columbia University Faculty House
Category(ies) No Categories
Columbia University Seminar on Medieval Studies.
Thursday, April 7, 5:30pm: Hannah Barker (Rhodes College)
“Slavery and Law in a Fourteenth-Century Genoese Colony”
Professor Barker’s abstract follows:
“The unique legal status of slaves as both persons and objects makes their sale different from that of any other commodity. This talk presents the framework of laws and norms which governed the sale of slaves in late medieval Genoese colonies around the Black Sea in order to understand certain issues particular to this legal act. These included warranties of health, slaves acting as parties to their own sale, the boundary between captivity and slavery, and religious restrictions on slave sales.”
As usual, all of the meetings will be held at Faculty House on Columbia’s campus. Additional details will follow in due course, and eventually will be available on the seminar website: http://universityseminars.columbia.edu/seminars/medieval-studies/
For more information contact Rapporteur Jeffrey Wayno, [email protected]