DoSSE Project
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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 https://www.dosseproject.com
Erin Dailey and Justin Pigott, on how Late Antique ascetics often still kept a single slave.... onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Ascetics, slaves, and necessity in Late Antiquity: renouncing all wealth, but for a single slave
Slave owners in Late Antiquity viewed the possession of at least one slave to be a necessity and a defining mark that distinguished the dignified social classes from the poor. Ascetics who shared thi...
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We are excited to announce our Annual Lecture 2026! Prof. Judith Evans-Grubbs (Emory University) "An Illegal and Dishonorable Deed": The Sale of Children by their Parents in the Roman Empire (200-600 CE) Wednesday, 21 October, 3:30 PM-5 PM (further details and links to come) #skyhistorians
Gender & History Annual Lecture 2026
Professor Judith Evans-Grubbs (Emory University) will speak on the Sale of Children by their Parents in the Roman Empire (200-600 CE)
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The BCDSS invites applications for Heinz Heinen Fellowships 2027/2028, open to doctoral, postdoctoral and senior scholars and Alternative Knowledge Producers. Proposals on the period before 1900. Deadline: 10 January 2027. buff.ly/q7D1TvA @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de
✨ Call for papers! 👉 Language and Labour in the Ancient World 📅 📍 15–16 April 2027 ⏰ Submit by Saturday 31st October 2026 🔗 Find out more: www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...
Today, we had our last official meeting as a project. We are proud of what we've achieved, sad that's formally over, and excited about what's still to come. The project may have reached the end of its funding timeline, but our team is carrying on as a research network.
Just got my hands on this fine looking volume, including my piece on a Carolingian copy of the first eight books of De civitate carrying annotations probably made in or near Arles in the early sixth century, possibly in the entourage of bishop Caesarius doi.org/10.30965/978...
What an astonishing find! According to his vita, Caesarius healed Parthenius' favourite slave, who Parthenius then put in charge of his home. Can't wait to read Jesse's study on the annotations to the City of God and learn more.
Jesse Keskiaho@jkeskiah.bsky.social · 3w agoWhat allows placing the creation of the annotations to Arles in the early sixth century are annotations referring to a Liberius and a Parthenius - most probably praefectus praetorio Galliarum Petrus Marcellinus Felix Liberius (510/11-533, d. after 554) and Parthenius, a local nobleman.
6th Oct. 2026, 17:00 GMT = 1PM EDT @tracconference.bsky.social Webinar Lecture: Daniel Connelly 'The Sound of Slave Labour: utilising ‘auditory peopling’ to analyse Marcus Aurelius’ depiction of ideal mastery at Villa Magna' www.ticketsource.com/theoretical-... @traj-journal.bsky.social
Part three now up on the DoSSE blog: 'Enslaved People in the Elite Home, III: The Stibadium and Dining Room' Link: www.dosseproject.com/enslaved-peo...
DoSSE Project@dosse-project.bsky.social · 3w ago"Enslaved People in the Elite Home, II: Ostia and Transitional Space" Read part two of Hannah Ashton's series on how Late Roman art depicted enslaved people, within the very spaces where they worked, on the DoSSE blog Link: www.dosseproject.com/enslaved-peo...
"Enslaved People in the Elite Home, II: Ostia and Transitional Space" Read part two of Hannah Ashton's series on how Late Roman art depicted enslaved people, within the very spaces where they worked, on the DoSSE blog Link: www.dosseproject.com/enslaved-peo...
DoSSE Project@dosse-project.bsky.social · 4w agoNEW on the DoSSE blog: 'Enslaved People in the Elite Home, I: The Cubiculum' This is part one of a three part guest series by Hannah Ashton, looking at the interaction between domestic space, art, & slavery in the Late Roman world. Link: www.dosseproject.com/enslaved-peo...
NEW on the DoSSE blog: 'Enslaved People in the Elite Home, I: The Cubiculum' This is part one of a three part guest series by Hannah Ashton, looking at the interaction between domestic space, art, & slavery in the Late Roman world. Link: www.dosseproject.com/enslaved-peo...
The Namelessness in History workshop wrapped up at BCDSS: two days of studying people left unnamed by history, from ancient epigraphy to LLMs. Part of "The Nameless in History," funded by @volkswagenstiftung.de. Thanks to all who took part. @unibonn.bsky.social
Lots of discussion of ‘popular’ history and its pitfalls in context of Bayeux Tapestry exhibition. Just come across this excellent example - rather belatedly to my shame - of professional historians doing it brilliantly. 1/ www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/1...
Portraits of Medieval Europe, 800–1400 | Christian Raffensperger, Erin
This volume provides a collection of ‘imagined lives’ – individuals who, no matter their position on the social hierarchy, were crucial to the development of
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NEW on the DoSSE blog: parts II & III of Zarmina's guest series on 'Spiritualising Slavery in Early Christianity' Part II: 'Theological Justifications for Slavery in the Writings of Augustine' www.dosseproject.com/spiritualizi...
DoSSE Project@dosse-project.bsky.social · last mo.NEW on the DoSSE blog: 'Spiritualising Slavery in Early Christianity, I: Slavery as a Spiritual Journey' This is the first of three guest posts by Zarmina Hussain-Gambles, a student who has just finished her studies at the University of Lincoln. Link: www.dosseproject.com/spiritualizi...
Are you a historian who works on histories of work, trade, or industry? Do you want to reach a wider public audience? If so we want your pitches for our December issue! As medieval editor I am always happy to work with any medievalist on their articles! Submit: www.epoch-magazine.com/submit
OPEN ACCESS! Gender, Work, and Service in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe, ed. Cersovsky, Eva-Maria; Exarchos, Julia. Stuttgart 2026 (Vierteljahrschrift für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte – Beihefte, 265). biblioscout.net/de/book/10.2...
Gender, Work, and Service in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe
By focusing on service as an important socio-historical reality of labour, this volume presents new research on the complex relations between gender a...
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This is a big one: Brown University is searching for the next director of the Simmons Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice. Please help us identify excellent candidates to lead this signature program into the future. Please write me with ideas; please share in your networks; please apply.
Brown University - Professor and Director of the Simmons Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice | H-Net
1. Academic Accomplishment. We seek a scholar with a strong scholarly record, including excellence in both research and teaching, appropriate for appointment at the level of full professor in a social science, humanities, or arts department at Brown.
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The improvement in our understanding of how central slave-trading was to early eastern European states has been dramatic over the past few years - a great example of how historical (& archaeological) research moves the field forwards.
NEW on the DoSSE blog: 'Spiritualising Slavery in Early Christianity, I: Slavery as a Spiritual Journey' This is the first of three guest posts by Zarmina Hussain-Gambles, a student who has just finished her studies at the University of Lincoln. Link: www.dosseproject.com/spiritualizi...
We all need to start writing emails with the same attitude Gregory the Great had when writing letters. Whenever someone fails to answer my email I will henceforth begin my message with "Greetings, Your Negligence".
Seven (?) years in the making, submitted to my editors yesterday. 624 pages, covering almost 400 texts but 100 or so pages over my page limit. Happy to leave this in the hands of the editors for a while and move on to something else (or just get more sleep). My thanks to all who helped along the way
Job! Three Research Group Leader positions at the Bonn Dependency cluster, starting in January 2027, on a fixed-term contract until 31 December 2032. Application deadline is 15 September 2026.
Three remarkable Merovingian royal women, reconstructed from the costumes they were buried in, probably Wisigarde (510-538/40), Arnegunde (515-580) and Balthild (c.633-680). I love their presence; wish they'd been drawn older. By F Vincent in P Perin & E Wamers, Königinnen der Merowinger (2013)
This looks like a great new book on household dependency - and it features friend-of-the-project Niall Ó Súilleabháin on "The Monastic Familia in Northern France as a Coercive Labour Regime, c. 900–c. 1100 AD"
Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies@dependencybonn.de · 2mo ago📚️ Volume 32 in the DSS series is out now! Congratulations to Stephan Conermann, Ulbe Bosma and Gijs Kessler on their new publication. buff.ly/mAXFnVX @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de @iisg-amsterdam.bsky.social @degruyterbrill.bsky.social
📚️ Volume 32 in the DSS series is out now! Congratulations to Stephan Conermann, Ulbe Bosma and Gijs Kessler on their new publication. buff.ly/mAXFnVX @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de @iisg-amsterdam.bsky.social @degruyterbrill.bsky.social
Excited to announct a (slightly belated) call for papers for @imc-leeds.bsky.social! @vikkisands.bsky.social and I look forward to hearing your abstracts for our session on Communities and Outsiders! Deadline for abstracts: 1 September 2026. #medievalsky #imc2027 #cfp
August 18 is the feast day of Saint Helena, former stabularia (often an enslaved stablekeeper) & mother of Constantine. She is the patron saint of archaeologists for sending a brigade to excavate the True Cross but as @writinghelena.bsky.social shows: she was much more global.oup.com/academic/pro...
Still time for this, so keep sending submissions in. Have some brilliant submissions for 1 panel already but would be interested in a second!
Alex Harvey@alexharvv.bsky.social · 2mo agoA (belated) cfp for #IMC2027 FORGET THE VIKINGS: Other raids, raiders, & raiding practises of the Early Medieval Period Read below for details, and if you're interested (or know anyone who might be), please submit your proposal of 150 words to the attached e-mail (also in alt text) before 1/9/26
Keep submitting and circulating! Trying to get a broad chronological sweep with this, so please reshare into different historical groups covering 400 - 1100 CE
Alex Harvey@alexharvv.bsky.social · 2mo agoA (belated) cfp for #IMC2027 FORGET THE VIKINGS: Other raids, raiders, & raiding practises of the Early Medieval Period Read below for details, and if you're interested (or know anyone who might be), please submit your proposal of 150 words to the attached e-mail (also in alt text) before 1/9/26
