Debra Blumenthal
Biographic Data
| ID | 3785244 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Debra Blumenthal |
| GIVEN NAMES | Debra |
| FAMILY NAME | Blumenthal |
| SIGNATURE | BLUMENTHAL D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Santa Barbara |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1959 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Human Trafficking in Medieval Europe
In recent years, there have been a flurry of publications exploring premodern migrations, both voluntary and forced. Works such as Miri Rubin's Cities of Strangers: Making Lives in Medieval Europe
As [Healthy] Women Should”
Expanding the discussion highlighting the role of slavery in the production of medical knowledge beyond the much more extensively studied Atlantic world and the nineteenth-century US South, this article explores the exploitation of enslaved women’s bodies as clinical subjects in fifteenth-century Iberia. Menstrual disorders figured prominently among “hidden defects” cited in slave warranty suits filed by disgruntled buyers across the late medieva…
William D. Phillips Jr. Slavery in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia
Journal Article William D. Phillips Jr. Slavery in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia. Get access William D. Phillips. Slavery in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014. Pp. 257. $65.00. Debra Blumenthal Debra Blumenthal University of California, Santa Barbara [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 120…
Domestic medicine
Domestic slaves and servants were ubiquitous figures in the late medieval M editerranean world, whose health and physical condition were matters of special concern to their masters and mistresses. This concern not infrequently prompted legal action. Fifteenth‐century civil court records are rife with suits filed by disgruntled masters protesting that a recently purchased slave was ‘defective’ or an exasperated mistress claiming that a servant was…
“As If She Were His Wife”
In 1476, a Russian slave woman named Rosa appeared before a royal court in the city of Valencia and demanded her freedom. Describing how she and her late master had slept together in the same bed and "ate together at one table," Rosa's legal representative contended that her master had treated her more "like his concubine" (com si fos una concubina sua) than his slave. Indeed, he emphasized, she had given birth to two of his children: a daughter …
Captives and Their Saviors in the Medieval Crown of Aragon . Jarbel Rodriguez
The Handless Maiden
Mary Elizabeth Perry. The Handless Maiden: Moriscos and the Politics of Religion in Early Modern Spain. Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the Ancient to the Modern World. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005. xxii + 202 pp. index. illus. chron. bibl. $35. ISBN: 0-691-11358-0. - Volume 59 Issue 3
Histoires d'esclaves dans la péninsule Ibérique . Alessandro Stella
Television and the Child
Television and the Child
Histoires d'esclaves dans la péninsule Ibérique . Alessandro Stella
The Handless Maiden
Mary Elizabeth Perry. The Handless Maiden: Moriscos and the Politics of Religion in Early Modern Spain. Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the Ancient to the Modern World. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005. xxii + 202 pp. index. illus. chron. bibl. $35. ISBN: 0-691-11358-0. - Volume 59 Issue 3
Captives and Their Saviors in the Medieval Crown of Aragon . Jarbel Rodriguez
“As If She Were His Wife”
In 1476, a Russian slave woman named Rosa appeared before a royal court in the city of Valencia and demanded her freedom. Describing how she and her late master had slept together in the same bed and "ate together at one table," Rosa's legal representative contended that her master had treated her more "like his concubine" (com si fos una concubina sua) than his slave. Indeed, he emphasized, she had given birth to two of his children: a daughter …
Domestic medicine
Domestic slaves and servants were ubiquitous figures in the late medieval M editerranean world, whose health and physical condition were matters of special concern to their masters and mistresses. This concern not infrequently prompted legal action. Fifteenth‐century civil court records are rife with suits filed by disgruntled masters protesting that a recently purchased slave was ‘defective’ or an exasperated mistress claiming that a servant was…
William D. Phillips Jr. Slavery in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia
Journal Article William D. Phillips Jr. Slavery in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia. Get access William D. Phillips. Slavery in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014. Pp. 257. $65.00. Debra Blumenthal Debra Blumenthal University of California, Santa Barbara [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 120…
Human Trafficking in Medieval Europe
In recent years, there have been a flurry of publications exploring premodern migrations, both voluntary and forced. Works such as Miri Rubin's Cities of Strangers: Making Lives in Medieval Europe
As [Healthy] Women Should”
Expanding the discussion highlighting the role of slavery in the production of medical knowledge beyond the much more extensively studied Atlantic world and the nineteenth-century US South, this article explores the exploitation of enslaved women’s bodies as clinical subjects in fifteenth-century Iberia. Menstrual disorders figured prominently among “hidden defects” cited in slave warranty suits filed by disgruntled buyers across the late medieva…
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