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Magdalena Coline A Life Beyond Slavery in Mediterranean Europe | 8.09 MB
Title: Magdalena Coline
Author: Daniel Lord Smail
Category: Nonfiction, History, Africa, Medieval, France
Language: English | 259 Pages | ISBN: 0691253803
Description:
The courtroom drama that denied the legitimacy of slavery in late medieval Europe
In 1387, a young Muslim woman from North Africa was captured on a galley in the Bay of Naples and brought to Marseille as a slave. For more than ten years, she was held in bondage to a shipwright and privateer named Peire Huguet. Daniel Lord Smail tells the extraordinary story of Magdalena Coline, a woman who dared to file suit against the man who called himself her master, and whose passage from servitude to freedom raises tantalizing questions about how the people of her time made sense of slavery as a social category.
In a masterful narrative that takes readers from the waters of the Mediterranean to the court of the Angevin King Louis II, claimant to the throne of Naples, Smail describes how Peire, pressed by Magdalena's supporters, reluctantly granted her a tacit manumission through her marriage to her first husband, whose death two years later placed her in a state of...
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