Slavery in the Black Sea Region, c.900-1900 : forms of unfreedom at the intersection between Christianity and Islam / edited by Felicia Roșu.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Black Sea slavery in Genoese notarial sources, 13th-15th Centuries / Michel Balard -- Slavery in the Black Sea Region in Venetian notarial sources, 14th-15th centuries / Sergei Karpov -- The role of slaves in the Byzantine economy, 10th-11th centuries : legal aspects / Daphne Penna -- Christian slave traders, slave owners, and slaves in the 13th-15th centuries / Sandra Origone -- The Orthodox Church and the emancipation of Gypsy slaves in the Romanian principalities in the 19th century / Viorel Achim -- "It was the Poles that gave me most pain" : Polish slaves and captives in the Crimea, 1475-1774 / Mikhail Kizilov -- How captives were taken : the making of Tatar slaving raids in the early modern period / Andrzej Gliwa -- Captive-taking in the Ottoman and Crimean Black Sea Region and unfreedom in the northern countries / Maryna Kravets and Victor Ostapchuk -- What caused the 14th-century Tatar-Circassian shift? / Hannah Barker -- Slaves of the Crimean Khan or Muslim warriors? The status of Circassians in the early modern period / Natalia Królikowska-Jedlińska -- People-taking across the Mediterranean maritime frontier, 1675-1714 / Colin Heywood -- Slavery and the slave trade in the Atlantic and the Black Sea : a comparative view / Dariusz Kołodziejczyk.