Looking forward to this new history podcast by @adapalmer.bsky.social ! #earlymodern
RIP Carlo Ginzburg. His landmark works in #earlymodern microhistory and innovative historical methods have had a great influence on myself and many others.
Roman poses an interesting question here: "I don’t quite understand the rationale for these acts of controlled violence [by Mongol rulers]... why destroy the seized ‘property’ of their rivals? Why not make it their own?" I don't know the answer myself. Could it be related to nomadism? #medievalsky
Source: Archivio di stato di Genova, Notai antichi 720, Bartolomeo Risso, filza 6, nr. 187, dated 1453-01-08, in which the slaveholders and brothers Oberto and Meliano Riccio, named as heirs of the deceased Battista Cicala, sell an enslaved woman named Lucia.
12 May 1543: a husband-and-wife couple denounce Marcos Gil to the Inquisition in Lisbon for having supposedly said “by our stork” (por nossa cegonha) instead “by our lady” (por nossa senhora) when swearing a legally binding oath.
GEMENE-ST has encoded thousands of historical contracts and persons related to Mediterranean and Atlantic slavery ca. 1400-1550. It's an ongoing project which will be expanded significantly over the next year. (Full disclosure: I was involved in this!) #medievalsky #earlymodern #digitalhumanities