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ERC-funded project on the sexual exploitation of people enslaved within the households of the greater Mediterranean world, AD 300-900. Hosted by @uniofleicester
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DoSSE Project @dosse-project.bsky.social · Sep 8
We are very pleased to share that Seth M. Stadel, a DoSSE project alumnus, has published a new article in the Journal of Late Antiquity, entitled 'The Legal Constructions of Christian Slavery in Fars at the End of Late Antiquity'!

Read it, Open Access, here: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
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James Harland @jmharland.bsky.social · 6h
Reposting because this ought to get more views.
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James Harland @jmharland.bsky.social · 4d
At the Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies we are offering 10 fellowships for scholars at any stage in their careers to stay with us for up to 6 months (PhD candidates and senior academics) or 12 months (postdocs) to complete a research project:

www.dependency.uni-bonn.de/images/pdf-f...
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DoSSE Project @dosse-project.bsky.social · 11h
More information about the workshop here: bsky.app/profile/akjp...
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Aleksander Paradziński @akjp89.bsky.social · 11d
We had an entire day of stimulating discussions yesterday at the 'Elite Women and Systems of Dependency in Late Antiquity' workshop organised by Grace Stafford and yours truly. We are grateful to @dependencybonn.de for providing funding and assistance for this event.
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DoSSE Project @dosse-project.bsky.social · 11h
New on the blog: 'Diverse Tales of Slaves, Sex, & Female Owners'

In this post, James explores how late antique sources show female masters exploiting the bodies of their slaves. It follows from the 'Elite Women and Systems of Dependency' workshop in Bonn.

Link: www.dosseproject.com/diverse-tale...
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Past and Present @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social · 6d
Dame Janet L. Nelson (28 March 1942 – 14 October 2024)

by Alice Rio (All Souls College, University of Oxford)

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Dame Janet L. Nelson (28 March 1942 – 14 October 2024)*
Jinty Nelson left a strong mark of her presence in every institution that she was ever a part of, and there is none which does not regard its association w
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Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies @dependencybonn.de · 6d
📢 Congratulations to Julia Hillner for her contribution to an article in SPIEGEL Geschichte on slavery & prostitution in the Roman Empire!

(Article in German, subscriber access only)

🔗To the Article: buff.ly/DGw3EZDin: Spiegel GESCHICHTE 5/25 'Roms Kampf um German

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Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 7d
15,000+ searchable charters from the early Middle Ages...
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formlitchart.bsky.social @formlitchart.bsky.social · Sep 2
Neben unserer Edition mit Übersetzung der frühmittelalterlichen Formeln und unserem e-Lexikon haben wir auch ein ständig wachsendes Urkundenkorpus in unserer Werkstatt. 15.376 Herrscher- und Privaturkunden sind es inzwischen! Frei zugänglich und voll durchsuchbar:
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Willkommen in der Formulae - Litterae - Chartae Werkstatt!
Medieval Latin Formulae and their German translations in the Capitains Format
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James Harland @jmharland.bsky.social · 8d
Jobs for recently-minted PhDs in my department! Come join an excellent place to do interdisciplinary research spanning a vast chunk of space and time!
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Julia Hillner @writinghelena.bsky.social · 8d
The Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies is hiring three postdoctoral researchers.

We investigate the causes and mechanisms that contribute to the persistence of strong asymmetrical dependencies across historical and contemporary contexts.

Pre-modern perspectives are very welcome!
3 Postdoctoral Positions (100%, TV-L E-13, for 3 years)
full-time, Temporary, EG 13, Reference number: 2025/152
www.uni-bonn.de
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Julia Hillner @writinghelena.bsky.social · 8d
The Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies is hiring three postdoctoral researchers.

We investigate the causes and mechanisms that contribute to the persistence of strong asymmetrical dependencies across historical and contemporary contexts.

Pre-modern perspectives are very welcome!
3 Postdoctoral Positions (100%, TV-L E-13, for 3 years)
full-time, Temporary, EG 13, Reference number: 2025/152
www.uni-bonn.de
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Aleksander Paradziński @akjp89.bsky.social · 11d
To all those who couldn't join us at this time - we hope this workshop will result in something tangible, so keep your eyes open 😊.
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Aleksander Paradziński @akjp89.bsky.social · 11d
We had an entire day of stimulating discussions yesterday at the 'Elite Women and Systems of Dependency in Late Antiquity' workshop organised by Grace Stafford and yours truly. We are grateful to @dependencybonn.de for providing funding and assistance for this event.
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DoSSE Project @dosse-project.bsky.social · 12d
This was a fantastic, engaging workshop throughout. Our thanks to Aleksander and Grace for putting it together!
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Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · 12d
"Elite Women and Systems of Dependency in Late Antiquity" workshop @dependencybonn.de. Welcome by @akjp89.bsky.social and Grace Stafford.
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Jennifer Barry @jennisifire.bsky.social · 15d
Link seemed to be cut off, so here it is again: www.ucpress.edu/books/gender...
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Dr. Chance Bonar @chancebonar.bsky.social · 19d
The digital version of God, Slavery, and Early Christianity is officially out! If you're interested in ancient Mediterranean slavery's effects on Christian thought and practice, this is for you.

www.cambridge.org/core/books/g...
God, Slavery, and Early Christianity
Cambridge Core - History of Religion - God, Slavery, and Early Christianity
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Julia Hillner @writinghelena.bsky.social · 19d
My institution, the Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies, is currently advertising five nine-month fellowships to support the writing of a PhD funding proposal. Deadline 1 October.

Any questions, do get in touch (my email is on my webpage :)

www.dependency.uni-bonn.de/images/about...
www.dependency.uni-bonn.de
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DoSSE Project @dosse-project.bsky.social · 20d
And if anyone is interested in becoming an admin, feel free to reply or message me here!
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DoSSE Project @dosse-project.bsky.social · 20d
I created this a while ago with the intention of encouraging historians of slavery in different time periods to learn from each other. I think it's the only HC group dedicated to research on slavery. So far though it hasn't really got going, so I would really appreciate some help! ~James
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DoSSE Project @dosse-project.bsky.social · 20d
Joining Humanities Commons? If so, please consider becoming a member of the 'History of Slavery and Unfreedom Group': hcommons.org/groups/histo...
Activity – History of Slavery and Unfreedom – Knowledge Commons
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Ancient Jew Review @ancientjewreview.bsky.social · 23d
New pod! Mike interviews Tina Shepardson about A Memory of Violence: Syriac Christianity and the Radicalization of Religious Difference in Late Antiquity.

Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...

Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/0HyD...
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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 24d
Ancient scribes had to practice their signature just like we do. We even have papyri illustrating a scribe named Petaus who over and over wrote the formula for a proper signature:

Name + Title + “I have submitted.” ✍️

P. Petaus 121. Inv. No. 328 Cologne. 182-187 CE www.uni-koeln.de/phil-fak/ifa...
121. Schreibübung des Petaus Inv. Nr. Köln 328 Recto und Verso sowie um 180° gedreht 182/187 n. Chr. 9 x 22 cm Arsinoites Abb.: P.Petaus Tafel XIX (a) (Recto); CdÉ 41, 1966, 135; H. C. Youtie, Scriptiunculae II, 685; E. Turner, The Papyrologist at Work, London 1973, Tafel 6 b; R. Bagnall, Reading Papyri, Writing Ancient History, London-New York 1995, Tafel 5, nach S. VIII (BL X 159) Ed.: U. Hagedorn; D. Hagedorn; L. C. Youtie; H. C. Youtie Th. J. Kraus, Mnemosyne N.S. IV 53, 2000, 322–342 Abbildung: 328r 328v 328v (um 180° gedreht)
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Hopkins Press @hopkinspress.bsky.social · 26d
NEW ISSUE OUT NOW
Journal of Late Antiquity
Volume 18, Number 2, Fall 2025
#S2O #OpenAccess via @ProjectMUSE
tinyurl.com/58uf6c74

CONTRIBUTORS
Sabine R. Huebner
Marion Kruse
J.-Michel Reaux Colvin
Maria Pavlou
Chengzuo Yao
Gail Tatham
Andrew Paul Wood
Gabriele Castiglia
Seth M. Stadel
and more!
  NEW ISSUE OUT NOW Journal of Late Antiquity Volume 18, Number 2, Fall 2025 #S2O #OpenAccess via @ProjectMUSE CONTRIBUTORS Sabine R. Huebner Marion Kruse J.-Michel Reaux Colvin Maria Pavlou Chengzuo Yao Gail Tatham Andrew Paul Wood Gabriele Castiglia Seth M. Stadel Goudarzi Chance E. Bonar Mateusz Fafinski Anna Bonnell Freidin Michael Kulikowski Christopher Kelly Lea Niccolai Scott G. Bruce Becky Walker
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DoSSE Project @dosse-project.bsky.social · 26d
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DoSSE Project @dosse-project.bsky.social · Jul 14
New on the blog: Teaching Slavery in Late Antiquity - a reflection

In a guest post, Jamie Wood (University of Lincoln) talks about his new undergraduate module on late antique slavery. We'll be publishing some of his students' work over the next few weeks.

www.dosseproject.com/teaching-sla...
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DoSSE Project @dosse-project.bsky.social · 26d
New on the blog - "Female Slavery in the Third and Fourth Centuries CE"

Guest post by Molly Dumbrell. Molly uses papyri and other sources to illuminate the condition of enslaved women in the Late Roman period.

Link: www.dosseproject.com/female-slave...
Female Slavery in the Third and Fourth Centuries CE – DoSSE Project
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DoSSE Project @dosse-project.bsky.social · 29d
Seth is now a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Oxford www.ames.ox.ac.uk/people/seth-...
Seth M. Stadel
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DoSSE Project @dosse-project.bsky.social · 29d
Was Islamic or Sasanian law the greater influence upon Christian slaveholding practices in 7th-8th century Iran?

How did Bishops in the Church of East adapt and Christianise non-Christian regulations to forge the identity of their community?

Read Seth's article to find out!
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DoSSE Project @dosse-project.bsky.social · Sep 8
We are very pleased to share that Seth M. Stadel, a DoSSE project alumnus, has published a new article in the Journal of Late Antiquity, entitled 'The Legal Constructions of Christian Slavery in Fars at the End of Late Antiquity'!

Read it, Open Access, here: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
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DoSSE Project @dosse-project.bsky.social · Sep 8
We are very pleased to share that Seth M. Stadel, a DoSSE project alumnus, has published a new article in the Journal of Late Antiquity, entitled 'The Legal Constructions of Christian Slavery in Fars at the End of Late Antiquity'!

Read it, Open Access, here: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
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