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Looking beyond charters and contracts: child slavery in the narrative sources of the early Middle Ages

open access: yesEarly Medieval Europe, Volume 33, Issue 4, Page 572-589, November 2025.
This article traces the presence of enslaved children in early medieval narrative sources, especially hagiographies, and looks into the relationship between their historicity and their literary functions. While topoi such as the ransoming or redemption of slaves are acknowledged, this article argues that despite these motifs, narrative sources offer ...
Danny Grabe
wiley   +1 more source

Mamlūk Studies Review, Vol. XX (2017) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
The Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt and Syria, 1250 ...
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A “Documentary Turn” in the Medieval History of Egypt and Syria?

open access: yesHistory Compass, Volume 23, Issue 10-12, October-December 2025.
ABSTRACT The field of medieval Middle East history has seen a renewed attention to the use of documentary sources in recent years. These sources have long seen some neglect, and their interpretation has suffered from a stubborn narrative of paucity that has tended to relegate them to the fringe of this history. With the impact of other scholarly trends
Daisy Livingston
wiley   +1 more source

Mamlūk Studies Review, Vol. XII, No. 1 (2008) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
The Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt and Syria, 1250 ...
Unknown
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Defamiliarizing Romance: The Arabic sīra in the English Literary Classroom

open access: yesLiterature Compass, Volume 21, Issue 7-9, July-September 2024.
ABSTRACT This article explores the ways in which the Arabic sīra a genre loosely akin to the romance or chivalric epic can be incorporated into undergraduate teaching on medieval romance. Drawing on my own pedagogical experience and guided by ongoing critical work on decolonising and diversifying the curriculum, I demonstrate the values and challenges ...
Shazia Jagot
wiley   +1 more source

Mamlūk Studies Review, Vol. I (1997) [PDF]

open access: yes, 1997
The Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt and Syria, 1250 ...
Unknown
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LA‐ICP‐MS analysis of glass beads from Tié (12th–14th centuries), Kanem, Chad: Evidence of trans‐Sudanic exchanges

open access: yesArchaeometry, Volume 66, Issue 1, Page 100-118, February 2024.
Abstract Chemical analysis of glass from African archaeological sites has become a standard research tool over the past decades. Despite the multiplication of studies, the continent still exhibits vast unexplored regions. One of these is the surroundings of Lake Chad.
Sonja Magnavita   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Mamlūk Studies Review, Vol. VII, No. 1 (2003) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
The Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt and Syria, 1250 ...
Unknown
core   +1 more source

Mamlūk Studies Review, Vol. XXII (2019) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
The Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt and Syria, 1250 ...
Unknown
core   +1 more source

Mamlūk Studies Review, Vol. IV (2000) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2000
The Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt and Syria, 1250 ...
Unknown
core   +1 more source

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