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Slavery and Unfreedom in Byzantine Thought on the Household

Av Nathan Leidholm

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Slavery and family were deeply linked in Byzantine society. When Byzantine writers and theologians envisioned and contextualized both the realities and the idea of the household, they universally assumed the presence of enslaved people within it. Slavery was foundational in Byzantine conceptions of the family, as was the role of kinship and the family in their thinking about slavery. This study explores how the language, ideals, stereotypes, and literary tropes associated with enslaved people were deeply linked to Byzantine thought about the family and the household as a social unit. Drawing on a wide range of sources and modern theories like intersectionality and social death, this monograph seeks to demonstrate the numerous ways in which the long-term, widespread presence of enslaved people in Byzantine society influenced and even defined medieval Byzantine thought regarding the domestic space and its dynamics.
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Nathan Leidholm is Assistant Professor at Bilkent University and earned his PhD from the University of Chicago. Author of Elite Byzantine Kinship, ca. 950–1204 (Arc Humanities, 2019), his research interests include family, slavery, identity, and historical memory in the medieval world.

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One of the strengths of this monograph is that the author examines a wide range of sources relating to slavery in Byzantium. The author draws on legal texts such as the Ecloga and the Basilica, as well as legal cases recorded in the Peira and proceedings before episcopal courts. The study also makes use of ecclesiastical sources, including the homilies of Basil of Caesarea or commentaries of Theophylact, Archbishop of Ohrid and other various writings of the Church Fathers, alongside the works of Byzantine historians such as Nikephoros Gregoras and Anna Komnene.[...][T]his is an informative and stimulating study written in an accessible style that will appeal to scholars interested in gender, kinship, and family life in Byzantium. The book combines numerous examples, analyses of different sources, an extensive and up-to-date bibliography on slavery, and references to modern theories of slavery, making it of interest to scholars from a range of disciplines. The author succeeds in achieving his principal aim of placing slavery at the centre of discussions of the Byzantine household and family and makes a valuable contribution to the growing body of scholarship on Byzantine slavery.

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