ERC Advanced Grant · 2022
Female Slavery in Mediterranean Catholic Europe, 1500-1800
More than one million, and perhaps as many as two million individuals were enslaved in the Catholic regions of the early modern Mediterranean. Despite evidence of the prevalence of female slavery and of the fact that women constituted the bulk of the enslaved population in some areas, scholarship on bondage in Mediterranean Europe from 1500 to 1800 retains a strong androcentric bias. Transcending national historiographic traditions, FemSMed will break new ground by providing, for the first time, a comprehensive investigation of women’s enslavement and its wide-ranging implications during the pivotal period in European history that encompassed the Renaissance, the Reformations, the onset of…
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