Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


  • Record Number: 45958
  • Author(s)/Creator(s): Aglio degli Agli , , and Francesco Datini,
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  • Title: Slave Life in Late Medieval Mediterranean Europe [c. Letter of the Merchant Francesco Datini, to His Agent in Genoa; d. Letter of an Italian Slave-Owner, Aglio degli Agli, to a Friend; e Municipal Legislation, Barcelona]
  • Source: Texts from the Middle: Documents from the Mediterranean World, 650–1650.  Edited by Thomas E. Burman, Brian A. Catlos and Mark D. Meyerson.  University of California Press, 2022.  Pages 181 - 183.
  • Description: Datini asks his agent to find a young enslaved girl, so that he can train her. Aglio degli Agli complains that his wife wrongly suspects him of fathering the baby born to the enslaved woman in their household. A 1414 law in Barcelona forbids both enslavers and enslaved from profiting from prostitution.
  • Article Type: Translation
  • Subject (See Also): Girls Prostitutes Sexuality Slaves
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  • Geographic Area: Italy
  • Century: 14- 15
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  • Related Resources: The first and second texts are from Iris Origo, "The Domestic Enemy: The Eastern Slaves in Tuscany in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries," Speculum 30:3 (1955): 329-330, 344. The third text is from Josefina Mutgé i Vives, "Les ordinaciones del municipi de Barcelona sobre els esclaus," in De l’esclavitud a la llibertat: Esclaus i lliberts a l’Edat Mitjana, ed. Maria Teresa Ferrer i Mallol and Josefina Mutgé i Vives (CSIC, 2000), p. 260.
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  • Year of Publication: 2022.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN/ISBN: 9780520296534