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Record Number:
45958
Author(s)/Creator(s):
Aglio degli Agli , , and Francesco Datini,
Contributor(s):
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
Award Note:
Geographic Area:
Italy
Century:
14- 15
Primary Evidence:
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Abstract:
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.
Author's Affiliation:
Conference Info:
- , -
Year of Publication:
2022.
Language:
English
ISSN/ISBN:
9780520296534