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Slaves, Money Lenders, and Prisoner Guards: The Jews and the Trade in Slaves and Captives in the Crimean Khanate

Medievalists.net — Wed, 20 Aug 2014 07:50:33 +0000

Trade in slaves and captives was one of the most important (if not the most important) sources of income of the Crimean Khanate in the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries.

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Goths, Lombards, Romans, and Greeks: Creating Identity in Early Medieval Italy

Medievalists.net — Wed, 16 Jul 2014 12:26:44 +0000

This essay explores how two different non-Roman historians represented the past to their peoples: the Gothic historian Jordanes’ sixth-century work, the Getica, and the eighth-century Lombard historian Paul the Deacons’ History of the Lombards.

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Making a difference in tenth-century politics: King Athelstan’s sisters and Frankish queenship

Medievalists.net — Sat, 10 May 2014 11:59:39 +0000

In the early years of the tenth century several Anglo-Saxon royal women, all daughters of King Edward the Elder of Wessex (899-924) and sisters (or half-sisters) of his son King Athelstan (924-39), were despatched across the Channel as brides for Frankish and Saxon rulers and aristocrats. This article addresses the fate of some of these women through an analysis of their political identities.

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The Death Toll of Justinian’s Plague and Its Effects on the Byzantine Empire

Medievalists.net — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 21:19:48 +0000

In 541 a plague arrived in Egypt and rapidly began to spread. The following account of the beginning of the plague, while clearly an exaggeration still shows the impact of the disease.

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