Human Trafficking in Medieval Europe : Slavery, Sexual Exploitation, and Prostitution / Christopher Paolella.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Social worlds of late antiquity and the early Middle Ages | Social worlds of late antiquity and the early Middle Ages | Book collections on Project MUSEPublisher: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2020Manufacturer: Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2020Copyright date: ©2020Description: 1 online resource (300 pages): color mapsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9789048551552
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleLOC classification:
  • HQ281 .P365 2020
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Contents:
Early medieval slave trading -- 'Stuffing the beaches' -- Gendered differences -- The high medieval pivot -- The late medieval sex trade.
Summary: Human trafficking has become a global concern over the last 20 years, but its violence has terrorized and traumatized its victims and survivors for millennia. This study examines the deep history of human trafficking from Late Antiquity to the Early Modern Period. It traces the evolution of trafficking patterns: the growth and decline of trafficking routes, the ever-changing relationships between traffickers and authorities, and it examines the underlying causes that lead to vulnerability and thus to exploitation. As the reader will discover, the conditions that lead to human trafficking in the modern world, such as poverty, attitudes of entitlement, corruption, and violence, have a long and storied past. When we understand that past, we can better anticipate human trafficking's future, and then we are better able to fight it.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [251]-269) and index.

Early medieval slave trading -- 'Stuffing the beaches' -- Gendered differences -- The high medieval pivot -- The late medieval sex trade.

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Human trafficking has become a global concern over the last 20 years, but its violence has terrorized and traumatized its victims and survivors for millennia. This study examines the deep history of human trafficking from Late Antiquity to the Early Modern Period. It traces the evolution of trafficking patterns: the growth and decline of trafficking routes, the ever-changing relationships between traffickers and authorities, and it examines the underlying causes that lead to vulnerability and thus to exploitation. As the reader will discover, the conditions that lead to human trafficking in the modern world, such as poverty, attitudes of entitlement, corruption, and violence, have a long and storied past. When we understand that past, we can better anticipate human trafficking's future, and then we are better able to fight it.

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